Clayworth No. 1
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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: 1792 in-wash-on-paper drawing of the old baptismal font by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 15543 - Item number: f.156] [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/c/largeimage85355.html] [accessed 18 December 2011]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © B Hilton, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 December 2005 by H Hilton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/92797] [accessed 18 December 2011]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © British Library Board, 2009
Image Source: 1792 in-wash-on-paper drawing of the old baptismal font by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 15543 - Item number: f.156] [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/c/largeimage85355.html] [accessed 18 December 2011]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15436CLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Town Street, Clayworth, Nottinghamshire, DN22 9AD
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the B1403, about 8 km N of Retford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
Historical Region: formerly in Lincolnshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
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There is a 1792 in-wash-on-paper drawing of the old baptismal font by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library Collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 15543 - Item number: f.156] [NB: the basin is depicted as heptagonal in Grim's drawing]. Kelly's Directory of 1881 for Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire (p. 33) reports that the new font erected in the renovations of 1874-5 "has recently been painted from designs by the late Sir Gilbert Scott", but does not mention the whereabouts of the earlier one. Two fonts are noted in Pevsner & Williamson (1979): "One simple medieval […]" [cf. Index entry for Clayworth No. 2 for the second font, and Clayworth No. 3 for an early stoup in the same church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.38836, -0.909857
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 23′ 18.1″ N, 0° 54′ 35.48″ W
UTM: 30U 638999 5917509
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979