Littleborough
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view of basin and cover
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view of church interior - nave - west end
Scene Description: the basin and cover visible to the north of the west entrance
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by 28 September 2008 by Polandeze [http://www.flickr.com/photos/polandeze/3000064153] [accessed 16 October 2009]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Polandeze, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken by 28 September 2008 by Polandeze [http://www.flickr.com/photos/polandeze/3000061069] [accessed 16 October 2009]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 15489LIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 13 km E of Retford of Gainsborough
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the W entrance
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [re-tooled / re-cut], Norman [altered]
Font Notes:
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Griffin (1909) reports "an old tub font, which, unfortunately, has been tampered with" in this church. Noted in Cox (1912) as a "tub font modernised", probably after Griffin. The original basin must have been larger and of a different shape; it now shows hints of octagonal shape at the upper rim, combined with a rounded underbowl; probably reduced in size as well; it has been raised on a modern polygonal pedestal column. It has an old wooden cover, perhaps 17th-century, of low-dome shape with a ball finial; there are faint fleurs-de-lys painted on the cover sides.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: painted [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Griffin, H.J., "Summer excursion 1909: Littleborough church", 13 (1909), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1909