Markham Clinton / West Markham / Westmarcham

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cleric?

Scene Description: one of the seven; appears to hold a chalice or cup

Image Source: edited version of a photograph taken 25 January 1986 by Timothy Marlow

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cleric? - 7

Scene Description: in the arches of the arcade

Image Source: photograph taken 25 January 1986 by Timothy Marlow

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: with seven figures in them

Image Source: photograph taken 25 January 1986 by Timothy Marlow

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2

Image Source: photograph taken 25 January 1986 by Timothy Marlow

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 September 2005 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/55763] [accessed 29 October 2011]

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view of font

Image Source: photograph taken 25 January 1986 by Timothy Marlow

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the cover in 1773

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]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15460MAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: The Avenue, Markham Clinton (West Markham), Nottinghamshire, NG22 0GW

Country Name: England

Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located 3 km N of Tuxford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham

Historical Region: Hundred of Bassetlaw [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the re-built church

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this font

Church Notes: Church re-built in the 1830s; kept the old font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.245534, -0.920983

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 14′ 43.92″ N, 0° 55′ 15.54″ W

UTM: 30U 638722 5901602

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-

Byrne, Matthew, Beautiful churches saved by The Churches Conservation Trust, London: Frances Lincoln, 2013

Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912

Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979