Windsor No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 12839WIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Chapel of St. George
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1NJ
Country Name: England
Location: Berkshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located near the Castle, 35 km SW of London
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead
Date: ca. 1100?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Norman
Font Notes:
Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "in the south transept is a modern font of good design". Murray (1882) a font -no other details given- in the Bray Chapel, within St. George's. [NB: the Chapel dates back to the 14th century, and the original chapel may have dated to 1100, but we have no information of the earlier fonts of this church. *to be completed*: there is an essay on the fonts of the Chapel by Tudor-Craig, Pamela. 'The fonts of St George's Chapel'. In Saul, Nigel (ed.), St. George's Chapel Windsor in the fourteenth century (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005), 151-64. ISBN 1843831171].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 665996 5705815

REFERENCES

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831
Murray, John [the firm], Handbook for travellers in Berks. Bucks and Oxfordshire, including a [...], London: John Murray, 1882