Sunderland / Bishopwearmouth / St. Michael's Bishopwearmouth

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view of church exterior

Source caption: "High Street West, Sunderland. The earliest surviving parts of can be dated to the construction or rebuilding of the church in the thirteenth century. Much of the medieval church underwent extensive reconstruction in the nineteenth century beginning with work in 1805-1807 by the Durham architect, Christopher Ebdon in which the medieval chancel was largely reconstructed and the church tower replaced."

Scene Description: Source caption: "High Street West, Sunderland. The earliest surviving parts of can be dated to the construction or rebuilding of the church in the thirteenth century. Much of the medieval church underwent extensive reconstruction in the nineteenth century beginning with work in 1805-1807 by the Durham architect, Christopher Ebdon in which the medieval chancel was largely reconstructed and the church tower replaced."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 April 2014 by Reading Tom [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sunderland_Minster_(13920307169).jpg] [accessed 26 July 2017]

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view of font

Scene Description: the old font [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph in the Sunderland Minster website [http://www.sunderlandminster.co.uk/Minster%20History.htm] [accessed 14 April 2010]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font and cover

Scene Description: 19th-century font, and 17th-century cover?

Image Source: digital photograph in the Sunderland Minster website [http://www.sunderlandminster.co.uk/Minster%20History.htm] [accessed 14 April 2010]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 11513SUN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Minster Church of St Michael and All Angels and St Benedict Biscop / Sunderland Minster / Bishopwearmouth Parish Church

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels

Church Location: High Street West, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR1 3ET, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Durham, North East

Directions to Site: Located E of Washington, SE of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The church is located off (E) the A183-A1231 confluence, by thye City Campus of the University of Sunderland.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Durham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view

No entry found for Sunderland in the Domesday survey. Hutchinson (1823) notes a font "of beautiful Italian marble" in "the church of Sunderland" [NB: it is not clear which of the churches he is referring to]. Eric Shegog, in his 'Sunderland Minster' [source: www2.citysun.ac.uk/minster/] cites that, among the expenses listed in 1661 by Robert Grey, Rector during the Restoration period,some are assigned "for a new font cover". Two fonts are illustrated in the Minster source: one is a low plain octagonal basin with tapering sides, raised on a square plinth; appears medieval; has a flat octagonal wooden cover decorated with metal and a ring handle. The other must be the one noted in Hutchinson: octagonal basin of reddish-marble, raised on a central shaft and eight outer colonnettes, all in coloured marbles, on a two stem plinth made of balck marble; Victorian taste.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.906, -1.388

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 54′ 21.6″ N, 1° 23′ 16.8″ W

UTM: 30U 603354 6085521

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1661

Notes: this is the cover on the 19th-century font [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Hutchinson, William, The History and Antiquities of the county palatine of Durham, Durham: Printed and published by G. Walker, Sadler Street, 1823