North Wheatley

INFORMATION

FontID: 14369WHE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Country Name: England

Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located 3 km W of Surton, 10 km NE of Retford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Font Notes: Click to view

The Thoroton Society (1909) reports "a large Norman tub font" in this church. In Cox (1912): "Circular tub font Norm[an] 26 in. high, 34 in. in diameter. Blocked-up N. doorway ; supposed holy-water stoup built into it, but in reality an old domestic mortar". Guilford (1927) lists a "very large" baptismal font of the Norman period in this church. The Nottinghamshire Parish Church Database [http://www.oldnotts.co.uk/data/churchdatabase/stmatthew.htm] [accessed 25 March 2009] confirms the survival of a Norman font in this church.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm*

Basin Total Height: 65 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1912)]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912

Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927

Thoroton Society, "Summer excursion 1909: North Wheatley", 13 (1909), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1909