Blyth / Blyth Priory
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 15427BLY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [repaired in the late-17th century], Norman [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Priory Church of St. Mary and St. Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Martin
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located NW of East Retford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham
Additional Comments: altered font / re-cut font
Font Notes:
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Cox (1912) notes: "Font (T.S.T. vol. v.) Norm[an], but incongruously repaired at Restoration; cover Jacobean." Described in Pevsner & Williamson (1979): "Late C17 with cherubs' heads. The cover of the usual Jacobean type."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century? / Jacobean?
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 41 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 13 October 2009]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 79