South Collingham
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15440COL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Reported inside the church in 1905
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A1133, 10 km from Newark-on-Trent
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham
Font Notes:
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Noted in Blagg's visit of 1905: "There is an Early English font on a column of clustered shafts, with a water-mould at the base." In Cox (1912): "Octagonal font on group of shafts, 31 in. high, 29 in. in diameter, E[arly] E[nglish]." In Guilford (1927) as 13th-century. Not mentioned in Pevsner & Williamson (1979).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 72.5 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 77.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1912)]
REFERENCES
- Blagg, T.M., "Second excursion: North Collingham", 9 (1905), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1905
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 78 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 13 October 2009]
- Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 76