Coniston / Church Coniston / Coniston Fleming / Conistone (Cumbria) [disappeared?]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: EXT SW digital photograph taken 7 September 2015 by Phil Platt [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4650683] [accessed 10 April 2019]
INT E digital photograph taken 1 October 2018 by Des Colhoun [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5929113] [accessed 10 April 2019]
MOD FONT digital photograph taken in 2011 by Elaine Ainsworth, in the Lancashire Online Parish Clerks [www.lan-opc.org.uk/Ulverston/standrew/index.html] [accessed 10 April 2019]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Platt, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2015 by Phil Platt [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4650683] [accessed 10 April 2019]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the modern font of alabaster with a Greek palindrome inscription on the basin: NIFO NANO MHMATAMH MONA NOFIN", i.e., Clean my sins, not just my body
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Des Calhoun, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2018 by Des Colhoun [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5929113] [accessed 10 April 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11166CON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1586?
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(late?)
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: chapel consecrated 1586; documented 1650 as 'Parochial Chapel' [source: Gastrell's Notitia Cestriensis, vol. 3: 539-540]
Church Address: B5285, Coniston LA21 8EN, UK -- Tel.: +44 15394 41255
Site Location: Cumbria, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B5285, 6-7 km W of Hawkshead, 23 km from Ulverston
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle
Historical Region: Hundred of Lonsdale -- Hundred of Amounderness -- formerly Lancashire
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original 16thC(?) parochial chapel here)
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for this Coniston in the Domesday survey. Morris (1932) reports a "Rude square font -- probably Norm[an]" here. The present font in this church is modern, consisting of an octagonal basin of alabaster with carvings and an inscription of a Greek palindrome ["NIFO NANO MHMATAMH MONA NOFIN", i.e., Clean my sins, not just my body] all around; the underbowl is decorated with floral/foliage motifs; it is raised on a circular pedestal base. Is Morris referring to the same Coniston? The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SD3025097569] reports an alabaster octagonal font in it.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 495257 6024469
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.368725, -3.075684
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Morris, Joseph Ernest, The West Riding of Yorkshire, London: Methuen & Co., 1932, p. 162