South Leverton
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15488LEV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1175-1180?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Church,_South_Leverton
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km from Retford
Font Notes:
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Clarke (1909) reports a late-Norman font of ca. 1180 in this church. Noted in Cox (1912) as a Norman tub font of ca. 1175. Listed in Guilford (1927) as a Norman tub font. Pevsner & Williamson (1979) mention the Norman tower but not the font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Clarke, A.E., "Summer excursion 1909: South Leverton", 13 (1909), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1909
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 137 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 13 October 2009]
- Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 39, 112