Elkesley
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15471ELK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Hallows [aka All Saints / St. Giles]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Giles%27_Church,_Elkesley
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints / St. Giles
Church Notes: The church is referred to in some early sources as All Hallows or All Saints, but it is St. Giles in recent sources
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A1, 10 km S of Retford
Additional Comments: disused front?
Font Notes:
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Cox (1912) reports only a "modern font". Guilford (1927), however, reports: "The old font does duty as a pump through in the village."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 83 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 14 October 2009]
- Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 85