Bishopton / Biscopton
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11266BIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: 13thC (?) church re-built mid-19thC
Church Address: High Street, Bishopton, Durham PA7 5PP, UK -- Tel.: +44 1505 862583
Site Location: Durham, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B815, just SE of Aycliffe
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Durham
Historical Region: Stockton Ward
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Durham, vol. 3, 1928) notes: "about 1180 the church was granted by Roger de Conyers with the assent of Robert his son and heir to the Hospital of Sherburn [...] The church was almost completely rebuilt in 1846–7 by the Rev. Thomas Burton Holgate, vicar, (fn. 77) the only portions of the old church now remaining being parts of the chancel walls and of the south wall of the nave. [...] The font is apparently of late 12th-century date and consists of an octagonal bowl shaped to round on a circular banded stem and moulded base." In Pevsner (1983): "Font. Octagonal bowl on a single stem with C17 font cover, pyramidal and crocketed." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: NZ3652121247] reports: " In nave: C13 font (octagonal bowl on cylindrical stem) with C17 wood steeple cover".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 601047 6049747
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.5851, -1.4364
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 35′ 6.36″ N, 1° 26′ 11.04″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, County Durham, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1983, p. 110