Norham / Norhamshire

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11535NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Cuthbert, Norham
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cuthbert [aka Cubertus]
Church Address: 111 Church Ln, Norham, Berwick-upon-Tweed TD15 2LE, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1289 382325
Site Location: Northumberland, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B6470, about half way between Coldstream to the SW, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, 13 km to the NE
Historical Region: formerly Durham
Font Notes:
Hutchinson (1823) writes: "The late vicar, the Rev. Robert Lambe, in levelling the ruins of walls in the church-yard, discovered a sculpture, which, we apprehend, was the ornament of an ancient font." Mackenzie (1825) cites Hutchinson and adds: "There are represented on this stone three personages; in the upper compartments, St. Peter with his keys, in the lower, St. Cuthbert and St. Ceolwulf, with his sceptre; on a fillet which divides these figures is an inscription beginning I.H.Z. but the other characters are so defaced , as to baffle the attempts of the most patient antiquary to decypher them." Wilson (1870) reports a modern font at his time, "the gift of the Rev. John Edmunds". Kelly's Directory of Durham and Northumberland (1890) has: "the octagonal stone font, supported on four columns, was the gift of the Rev. John Edmunds." Reported modern font lid in http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~agene/norhamch.htm [NB: early church ca. 840 -- rebuilt ca. 1180 -- the sculpture found ca. 1800 (?), if its attribution is right, may have belonged to one of the earlier fonts -- the font noted in Kelly (1890) was probably the one installed in the Victorian renovation of this church -- we have no information on the earlier fonts of this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: fragment

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Location: on the basin (?) side [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: "I. H. Z. [?]"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: Mackenzie (1825, vol. 1: 330)

REFERENCES

  • Hutchinson, William, The History and Antiquities of the county palatine of Durham, Durham: Printed and published by G. Walker, Sadler Street, 1823, p. 474
  • Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Durham and Northumberland, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1890, p. 1019
  • MacKenzie, Eneas, An historical, topographical, and descriptive view of the County of Northumberland, and of those parts of the County of Durham situated north of the river Tyne, with Berwick upon Tweed and […], Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed and published by Mackenzie and Dent […], 1825, vol. 1: 330
  • Wilson, Frederick Richard, An architectural survey of the churches in the Archdeaconry of Lindisfarne, in the County of Northumberland, containing plans and views […], Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Printed and photo-lithographed by M. and M. W. Lambert, 1870, p. 31