Walkeringham
INFORMATION
FontID: 15465WAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalen
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NW of Gainsborough
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1663?
Century and Period: 17th century, Restoration
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Cox (1912) lists Walkeringham as having one of about a score of Restoration fonts in the county and dated generally to 1663, but his description appears to indicate that this could be a composite font: "Small octagonal font on old base; 1663 and initials R.C., B.W." Guilford (1927) mentions a font of 1663. Noted in Pevsner & Williamson (1979) as dated to 1663, octagonal and undecorated.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: letters
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: [R.C., B.W.]
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979