Papplewick

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 15501PAP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Norman / Early English?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St James [formerly St. Helen]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17527963
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James [formerly dedicated to St. Helen]
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 1-2 km E of Linby, 16 km W of Southwell
Additional Comments: discarded font / disused font / restored font
Font Notes:
Cox (1912) notes: "At N[orth] end of churchyard is a discarded I3th cent. font." Guilford (1927) notes: "The E[arly] E[nglish] font gave way to a Puritan apology in the form of a basin." The Parish web site [http://www.papplewick.org/local/St_Jinfo.htm] [accessed 17 October 2009] notes: "Just inside the door is the old Norman tub font. It was found in the Churchyard, and until its restoration , the tiny marble basin at the back of the church was used." [NB: that marble object must be what Guilford had referred to as "a Puritan apology in the form of a basin"]. Noted in Butler (1953): "Immediately inside the door is the old Norman tub font which for many years lay neglected in a hedge-bottom of the churchyard, but now restored to its proper place. Until this was done the only provision for Baptism was a most inadequate marble bason, which is attached to the wooden partition forming the wall of the choir vestry". Pevsner & Williamson (1979) note two fonts: "Small bowl on wooden column.- The medieval font has been preserved too, ten times the size of the other, of tub shape with very elementary incised decorations."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Butler, L.I., Linby & Papplewick notebook, 1953, [http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/butler1953/linby6.htm] [accessed 17 October 2009]
  • Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 163 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 19 October 2009]
  • Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 155
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 288