Retford / East Retford / Redforde / Redeford

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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - pointed quatrefoil - 8

Scene Description: the quatrefoil is filled with foliage or floral pattern

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 August 2009 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

BU01: design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 August 2009 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

UB01: design element - motifs - tracery

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 August 2009 by Colin Smith

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cleric - bishop - (St. Swithun?)

Scene Description: unknown whether the image is on the font at present, and where on it [cf. Font notes]

view of font

Scene Description: as illustrated in Piercy (1828)

Image Source: engraving in Piercy (1828)

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2009 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 15252RET

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Swithun

Church Patron Saints: St. Swithun [aka Swithin]

Country Name: England

Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located ENE of Worksop, WSW of Gainsborough

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by the S entrance

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Piercy (1828): "The most curious, if not the most ancient, piece of workmanship in the Church, is the font, which stands on the left hand immediately on entering the great south door; the pedestal as well as the sculptured ornaments are in good preservation, except one flower, which has been mutilated for some purpose or other; it stands three feet nine inches high; the pedestal is plain and neat, and on the other side of the body is the figure of a bishop (probably that of St. Swithin) holding a book to his breast. It is generally supposed to be work of the sixteenth century." Wooden cover of actagonal pyramidal shape, the sides carved and the arrises crocketed; floral finial. This font not mentioned in Cox (1912), who mentions a new font and cover in West Retford St. Michael's. No font mentioned in Pevsner & Williamson (1979) entry for this church.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Font Height (with Plinth): 112.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [given in Piercy (1828) as 3 ft. 9 in.]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Piercy, John S., The History of Retford, in the County of Nottingham, comprising [...] with an historical and topographical account of the villages of West Retford, Babworth, Ordsall, Grove, and Clarborough, Cradock, [etc.]: Printed for the author by F. Hodson [...], 1828