South Leverton

INFORMATION

FontID: 15488LEV

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Country Name: England

Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located 6 km from Retford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1175-1180?

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?

Font Notes: Click to view

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

Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927