Fledborough

INFORMATION

FontID: 15474FLE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Gregory

Church Patron Saints: St. Gregory the Great

Country Name: England

Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located 10 km ENE of Tuxford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Font Notes: Click to view

Du Boulay Hill (1907) notes: "The font is a plain octagonal one. There is a water stoup inside the church by the south door". Cox (1912) has: "Octagonal font Dec[orated]. Holy-water stoup inside church S[outh] door." [NB: information probably taken from A. Du Boulay Hill, whom Cox quotes]

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

Hill, A. Du Boulay, "Fledborough church", 11 (1907), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1907