Arnold / Emehale

INFORMATION

FontID: 15420ARN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Now a NE suburb of Nottingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham
Century and Period: 14th century (early?), Medieval
Noted in Cox (1912) as a "new font and baptistery" of 1898. The Parish web site [http://stmarysarnold.org.uk/history.htm] [accessed 1 October 2009] reports and illustrates a replacement font installed in 1899; it has an octagonal basin with decorated sides and is raised on a central shaft and four outer marble collonettes; typically Victorian. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of the medieval church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.009167, -1.126944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 0′ 33″ N, 1° 7′ 37″ W
UTM: 30U 625669 5874931

REFERENCES

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