Costock / Cortlingstock
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15443COS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Giles
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Giles%27_Church,_Costock
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 14 km S of Nottingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham
Additional Comments: altered font / composite font?
Font Notes:
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Noted in Cox (1912): "Plain octagonal font is 14th cent., but base is modern." The Cockstok Village web site [http://www.costockvillage.com/local_area.htm] [accessed 2 October 2009] notes: "The font bowl, which stands on a much more modern pedestal, is 14th century and the cover was made from an old chest for it bears half the names of the churchwardens." Neither font nor cover mentioned In Pevsner & Williamson (1979).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 71 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 14 October 2009]