Bilborough
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15467BIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1450?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (mid?), Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the N end of the nave
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17553874
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NW of Nottingham, now a suburb of the latter
Font Notes:
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Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1881: "at the north end of the nave is an ancient stone font of large dimensions". Noted in Cox (1912): "Octagonal font apparently coeval with tower" [i.e., ca. 1450]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 35 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 13 October 2009]
- Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1881, p. 17