Norton nr. Sheffield (West Yorkshire)

Results: 2 records

B01: design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B02: animal

Scene Description: several: one a bird with reptile tail? [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11118NOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Country Name: England
Location: West Yorkshire, Yorkshire and the Humber
Directions to Site: Located just outside Sheffield
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Armitage (1905) illustrates the font and writes: "There is an E[arly] E[nglish] font of great interest, supported on groups of filleted pillars, with the dog-tooth moulding between." Noted in Mee (1941): "The fine font is 13th century, the bowl carved with heads and foliage and a strange figure like a bird with the tail of a reptile." Pevsner (1986 c1967) notes: "Font. E[arly] E[nglish] with four supports of three shafts each and a bowl with animals under low pointed trefoil arches (cf. Ashbourne, Derbyshire)."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Armitage, Ella S., A key to English antiquities with special reference to the Sheffield and Rotherham disctrict, London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1905
Mee, Arthur, The King's England, Yorkshire, West Riding, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1941
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Yorkshire: the West Riding, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1986 c1967