Walkeringham

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 15465WAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1663?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Restoration
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary_Magdalene%27s_Church,_Walkeringham
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NW of Gainsborough
Font Notes:
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 Text: [R.C., B.W.]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 12, 226 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 13 October 2009]
  • Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 201
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 178, 362