South Wheatley

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15495NOT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?) [basin only] -- 15th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Helen [in ruins]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17527909
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Helena
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near North Wheatley
Additional Comments: re-cycled font: moved font -- disappeared font? the original font of the Norman church
Font Notes:
The Thoroton Society (1909) reports: "the ruins of South Wheatley church; a plain Norman chancel arch and a Perpendicular tower are all that remain standing, and the bases of the arcade may still be seen. The font from this church is now in use in St. Catharine's, Nottingham. The church stands quite isolated, and was probably allowed to fall into decay, as not needed, North Wheatley church being only about half a mile distant." Cox (1912) notes: "Font bowl Trans[itional] now in St. Catherine s church, Nottingham; standing on squared embattled base, I5th cent., said to come from Saxendale." In Guilford (1927), also with the new location at Nottingham St. Catherine's. [NB: Pevsner & Williamson (1979) note the ruins of St. Helen, but do not mention the font in the enrty for South Wheatley. The South Wheatley font is noted in their book in the entry for St. Catherine on St. Ann's Well Rd., in outer Nottingham]. [NB: there appears to be some confusion in some of the sources between the fonts originally from Saxendale and South Wheatley, both moved to locations [Cossall, Carlton? and St. Catherine] near Nottingham that have parish churches dedicated to St. Catherine [Carlton's is dedicated to St. John] -- cf. Index entries for Cossall, St. Catherine and Carlton for details of those fonts -- to be resolved]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 231 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 20 October 2009]
  • Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 205
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 261, 334
  • Thoroton Society, "Summer excursion 1909: North Wheatley", 13 (1909), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1909