Barnby-in-the-Willows
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 15424BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just E of Newark-on-Trent
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham
Font Notes:
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Described in Cox (1912): "Octagonal font has small shields in quatrefoils" and dates it to the 14th century. Noted in Guilford (1927) as Decorated. Described in the Tim Carter's Church Guide (2002) [http://www.barnby-in-the-willows.org.uk/] [accessed 1 October 2009]: "At the western end of the nave is the octagonal font, with carved shields in the panels, which echoes the octagonal pillars of the nave Norman arches. The font dates from the 14th century." Noted in Pevsner & Williamson (1979)
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 30 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 13 October 2009]
- Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 53
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 65