Houghton-le-Spring / Houghton le Spring
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11277HOU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Houghton-le-Spring
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael_and_All_Angels%27_Church,_Houghton-le-Spring
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Church Address: Church St, Houghton le Spring DH4 4DN, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 191 512 1769
Site Location: Durham, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A690, 7-8 km ESE of Chester-le-Street
Additional Comments: disused font
Font Notes:
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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, p. 97
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, County Durham, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1983, p. 330