Barton-in-Fabis / Barton in Fabis / Bartone

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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - motifs - panel - quadrangular - 8
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15466BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: Manor Rd, Barton, Nottingham NG11 0AA, UK -- Tel.: +44 115 983 0608
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A453 [aka Remembrance Way], 7-8 km SW of Nottingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Rushcliffe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Decorated
Church Notes: early-12thC church; first incumbent recorded 1266; present church late-14thC
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for Barton [-in-Fabis] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SK5232/barton-in-fabis/] [accessed 13 November 2019], one of which reports "0.5 churches" in it. Cox (1912) writes: "Octagonal font coeval with building; plain square panels". Guilford (1927) dates it to the Decorated period. The entry for this church in the Southwell & Nottingham Church Hitsory Project [http://southwellchurches.history.nottingham.ac.uk/barton-in-fabis/hfitting.php] [accessed 13 November 2019] notes: "By the early twelfth century, there was a church. Lenton Priory, founded around 1103-1108, was granted the land and tithes by Odo of Bunny. In 1231, the Prior was granted an annual pension of five shillings from Barton Church. [...] The octagonal font, a shape used widely used from the late 13th century, stands in the south aisle near the doorway. It is cut out of three large blocks of stone. The bowl is lined with lead. There is a wooden cover on it."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.889722, -1.225
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 53′ 23″ N, 1° 13′ 30″ W
UTM: 30U 619419 5861479
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with carved top; no handle or finial
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927