Caunton

INFORMATION

FontID: 15434CAU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A616, 10 km NW of Newark-on-Trent
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Noted in Guilford (1927) and in Pevsner & Williamson (1979) as a baptismal font of the 13th century. Beeson (2004) refers to Reynolds Hole's "graphic account of church life at Caunton during the late 1830s", which notes: "The font, which was never used for baptism, was filled with coffin ropes, brimstone matches and candle ends."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Beeson, Trevor, The Deans, London: SCM Press, 2004
Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979