Markham Clinton / West Markham / Westmarcham
Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
Results: 7 records
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: photograph taken 25 January 1986 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the cover in 1773
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © British Library Board, 2011
Image Source: 1773 ink-wash-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1773-1794) in the British Library Board Online Gallery [www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/topdrawings/w/005add000015544u00079000.html] [accessed 29 October 2011]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction – Fair Dealing
cleric?
Scene Description: one of the seven; appears to hold a chalice or cup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: edited version of a photograph taken 25 January 1986 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: with seven figures in them
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: photograph taken 25 January 1986 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
cleric? - 7
Scene Description: in the arches of the arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: photograph taken 25 January 1986 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: photograph taken 25 January 1986 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richardf Croft, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2005 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/55763] [accessed 29 October 2011]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15460MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the re-built church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: Church re-built in the 1830s; kept the old font
Church Address: The Avenue, Markham Clinton (West Markham), Nottinghamshire, NG22 0GW
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km N of Tuxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Bassetlaw [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for West Markham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SK7272/west-markham/] [accessed 23 February 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The British Museum Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, etc. (1844- ), lists a "Drawing, in Indian ink, of the circular stone font in the Church at West Markham; by S. H. Grimm: 10 1/2 in. x 7 1/2 in.: with an outline sketch, 7 1/2 in. x 6 in. [P. R. Kaye, III. 314]"; the 1773 ink-wash-on-paper drawing is now in the British Library collections [Shelfmark: Additional MS 15544 - Item number: f.79]. The font is noted in Cox (1912): "good Norm[an] font with figures in arcaded niches." Guilford (1927) writes: "a church which is disused and will soon be in ruins. Inside are an effigy and a fine Norman font, which ought to be moved to the Mausoleum near Milton." Pevsner & Williamson (1979) write: "Font. Norman, of unusual interest, with very barbaric figures under arcades (cf. examples at Hereford; in Gloucestershire at Newnham, Rendcombe, and Stanley St Leonard; at Stoneleigh, Warwicks, and Pershore, Worcs; and lead fonts at Ashover, Derbys, and Dorchester, Oxon)." [NB: a visit by Richard Croft on 20 September 2005 [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/55763] [accessed 17 October 2009], notes: "All Saints' church is worthy of a parish with such a splendid name! It has an interesting Norman font, two transitional doorways, half timbered porch, roof bosses and bench ends - all lovingly cared for by the parishioners of Markham Clinton." The National Monuments Record [http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk/default.aspx] [accessed 17 October 2009] records a 12th-century font in this church
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 638722 5901602
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.245534, -0.920983
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 14′ 43.92″ N, 0° 55′ 15.54″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: the 1773 drawing by Grimm [cf. FontNotes] shows a rudimentary wooden cover on the font, round, flat and plain. The present cover is also round, plain and flat but it is modern
REFERENCES
- British Museum, Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum, London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1844-, vol. 2: 105
- Byrne, Matthew, Beautiful churches saved by The Churches Conservation Trust, London: Frances Lincoln, 2013, p. 159-162
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 12
- Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 39, 116
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 375