Normanton-on-Trent No. 2 / Normanton-upon-Trent / Normentune
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: OLD FONT digital photograph taken 1 August 2014 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4104534] [accessed 14 July 2015] Source caption: "Church of St Matthew, Normanton-on-Trent. The disused bowl font and parish chest."
FONT 2 digital photograph taken 1 August 2014 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4104542] [accessed 14 July 2015] Source caption: "Remains of medieval colouration on a south aisle arcade pillar."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2014 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4104520] [accessed 14 July 2015]
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view of font in context
![Source caption: "Remains of medieval colouration on a south aisle arcade pillar." -- on the left is the top of the baptismal font in use [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150928085_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Remains of medieval colouration on a south aisle arcade pillar." -- on the left is the top of the baptismal font in use [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2014 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4104542] [accessed 14 July 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2014 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4104538] [accessed 14 July 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alan Murray-Rust, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2014 by Alan Murray-Rust [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4104533] [accessed 14 July 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15497NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century / 19th century, Medieval? / 19th century (?)
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Matthew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, behind the left bank of benches
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Matthew
Church Address: Tuxford Road, Normanton-upon-Trent, Nottinghamshire, NG23 6RN
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km ESE of Tuxford, 15 km SE of Retford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Lythe [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Notmanton [-on-Trent] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK7969/normanton-on-trent/] [accessed 14 July 2015], neither of which mention cleric or church in it. Two fonts here are noted in Cox : "near it [i.e., the south porch] in churchyard circular Norm[an] font, now a flower-pot; mean modern font." Guilford (1927) notes: "The old font does duty as a flower-pot in the churchyard." The present font in use, located at the west end of the nave, is of late-medieval design, but may actually be modern. [cf. Index entry for Normanton-on-Trent No. 1 for a much earlier font recovered from the churchyard]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 645673 5898098
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.2122, -0.818495
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 12′ 43.92″ N, 0° 49′ 6.58″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 150 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 19 October 2009]
- Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 129