Houghton-le-Spring / Houghton le Spring

INFORMATION

FontID: 11277HOU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Country Name: England
Location: Durham, North East
Directions to Site: Located E of Chester-le-Street
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Reporting on his visit of November 1847 Gibson (1848) notes: "the spacious stone basin of the font is disused". In Pevsner (1983): "Font. Octagonal, on a square base. C13 or C14."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Gibson, William Sidney, Descriptive and historical notices of some remarkable Northumbrian castles, churches, and antiquities: in a series of visits […] First series, London; Newcastle-upon-Tyne: William Pickering; Robert Robinson, 1848
Pevsner, Nikolaus, County Durham, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1983