Blyth / Blyth Priory
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angel - head
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15427BLY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Priory Church of St. Mary and St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Martin
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located NW of East Retford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [repaired in the late-17th century], Norman [altered]
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979