Beckside / Beck Side / Kirkby Ireleth

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12153BEC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Cuthbert, Beckside
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cuthbert [aka Cubertus]
Church Address: Beckside LA17, Kirkby-in-Furness, UK
Site Location: Lancashire, North West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A595, 5-6 km SE of Broughton-in-Furness, about 10 km NW of Ulverston
Historical Region: Hundred of Lonsdale
Additional Comments: disappeared font: the original Norman font?
Font Notes:
Pevsner (1969) notes a baptismal font: "Octagonal, goblet-shaped, with just panels and one shield on the stem." [NB: this is obviously not the font from the original Norman church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Lancashire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1969, vol. 2: 59