Cotham

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15445COT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael [redundant since the 1980s]]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km S of Newark-on-Trent
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham
Font Notes:
Noted in Cox (1912) and in Pevsner & Williamson (1979) as a 14th-century octagonal font in this church.

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. 73 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 14 October 2009]
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 107