Porchester nr. Gedling

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13734POR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James [aka Barn Church]
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Marshall Hill Dr, Nottingham NG3 6FY, UK -- Tel.: +44 115 960 6185
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located near Gedling, in the western suburbs of Nottingham [NB: Porchester does not appear on maps of Nottingham as a place. There is a Porchester Road which is the southern boundary of the parish of Porchester in the urban district of Gedling, an area better known as Mapperley -- source: http://southwellchurches.history.nottingham.ac.uk/porchester/hhistory.php]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: 1956
Century and Period: 20th century (mid), Modern
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Bracket font
Church Notes: 1935 barn church from Marshall Hill Farm re-built 1956; no other church documented on this site
No individual entry for Porchester found in the Domesday survey. The Southwell Churches web site [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/p03/hhistory.html] [accessed 1 September 2008] notes: "The original altar and font were from St Michael's, Foxhill Road, Carlton, a mission church which closed in 1933", but the font worth noting is a modern peculiar contraption: "Dating from 1956 is an unusual 'Bracket' Font which can be swung out from a brick alcove, on an ornamental wrought iron arm, coloured in Venetian red and picked out with gold. The font is a bowl made of walnut and lined with copper. It is now rarely used" [NB: the font appears to be mounted in an alcove in the west end of the church, beneath the tower (?)]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood and metal, walnut [basin only]
Font Shape: barrel-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: barrel