North Muskham

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 15496MUS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1662?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [basin only] -- 17th century[stem only] [composite font], Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Wilfrid
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Wilfrid%27s_Church,_North_Muskham
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Wilfrid [aka Wilfred, Wilfrith]
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km N of Newark-on-Trent
Additional Comments: composite font
Font Notes:
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 Location: on the stem sides
Inscription Text: [Feb. 20, 1662, plus letters (initials?)]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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, p. 145 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 19 October 2009]
  • Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 119
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 212