Windsor No. 1

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12839WIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1100?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of St. George
Church Patron Saint(s): St. George
Church Address: Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1NJ
Site Location: Berkshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
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, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51412] [accessed 19 March 2007]
  • Murray, John [the firm], Handbook for travellers in Berks. Bucks and Oxfordshire, including a [...], London: John Murray, 1882, p. 21