Bothamsall / Bodmeschell / Bothumsell / Bottomsall

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B01: design element - patterns - tracery - crenellated

INFORMATION

FontID: 15429BOT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Mary [originally from the old church]
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Mary
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 7 km NNE of Ollerton, 12 km S of East Retford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church [originally in the old church]
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1881: "there is a fine stone font (formerly in the old church)". Cox (1912) notes: "Font and three bells survive from old church". Dated in Guilford (1927) as Decorated. Described in Pevsner & Williamson (1979): "Perp[endicular], from the old church, octagonal, with various fanciful castellated tracery patterns."

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
Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927
Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1881
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979