Bilborough

INFORMATION

FontID: 15467BIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NW of Nottingham, now a suburb of the latter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the N end of the nave
Date: ca. 1450?
Century and Period: 15th century (mid?), Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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
Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1881