Laneham

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view of font and cover

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2007 by Richard Croft [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/531774] [accessed 16 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced here under the provisions of the Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/] [accessed 16 October 2009]

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15486LAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the church, next to a pillar of the arcade that separates the nave from the aisle
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter%27s_Church,_Laneham
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km N of Fledborough, 13 km E of Retford, 21 km W of Lincoln
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
Font Notes:
Noted in Cox (1912) and in Guilford (1927) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. In Pevsner & Williamson (1979): "Norman, with tall arcades." The tub-shaped font has a moulding at the upper rim, and a blind arcade of round arches around its sides; stands on a circular lower base and a round plinth, the latter (and perhaps the former) modern. The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid with a Latin cross finial; appears modern, probably 19th-century.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 129 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 13 October 2009]
  • Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 129 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 13 October 2009]
  • Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 107
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 161