Bothamsall / Bodmeschell / Bothumsell / Bottomsall

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 15429BOT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Mary [originally from the old church]
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church [originally in the old church]
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_and_St_Peter%27s_Church,_Bothamsall
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Mary
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 7 km NNE of Ollerton, 12 km S of East Retford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham
Additional Comments: re-cycled font from the old church
Font Notes:
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, p. 42 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 13 October 2009]
  • Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 39
  • Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1881, p. 22
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 81