Sunderland / Bishopwearmouth / St. Michael's Bishopwearmouth
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view of church exterior
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."
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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 and cover
Scene Description: 19th-century font, and 17th-century cover?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sunderland Minster, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph in the Sunderland Minster website [http://www.sunderlandminster.co.uk/Minster%20History.htm] [accessed 14 April 2010]
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view of font
Scene Description: the old font [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sunderland Minster, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph in the Sunderland Minster website [http://www.sunderlandminster.co.uk/Minster%20History.htm] [accessed 14 April 2010]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11513SUN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Minster Church of St Michael and All Angels and St Benedict Biscop / Sunderland Minster / Bishopwearmouth Parish Church
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
Church Address: High Street West, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR1 3ET, UK
Site Location: Durham, North East, England, United Kingdom
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 Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 603354 6085521
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.906, -1.388
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 54′ 21.6″ N, 1° 23′ 16.8″ W
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, vol. 2: 675