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INFORMATION

FontID: 15496MUS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Wilfrid
Church Patron Saints: St. Wilfrid [aka Wilfred, Wilfrith]
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 5 km N of Newark-on-Trent
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1662?
Century and Period: 15th century [basin only] -- 17th century[stem only] [composite font], Late Medieval
Noted in Bailey (1902) and in Guilford (1927) as a font bearing the date 1662. Described in Cox (1912): "Font 15th cent, bowl, with octagonal shaft dated Feb. 20, 1662, and various initials; 17th cent cover." In Pevsner & Williamson (1979): "Font. 1662."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters and numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the stem sides
Inscription Text: [Feb. 20, 1662, plus letters (initials?)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bailey, Harold, "Autumn excursion", 6 (1902), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1902
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979