Saxendale

INFORMATION

FontID: 15503SAX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Chapel [pulled down in the 17th century]
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 4 km S of Shelford, 2-3 km W of Bingham, on the road between Bingham and Nottingham [Carlton is an eastern suburb of Nottingham; its church is St. John the Baptist]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Font Notes:
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." Guilford (1927) notes that a font from this chapel was moved to Carlton, nr. Nottingham. The chapel itself, informs Guilford, was pulled down early in the 17trh century. [the identity of the Saxendale and South Wheatley fonts, both moved to churches near Nottingham, appears to be confused in some of the sources -- cf. Index entries for St. Catherine (Nottinghamshire) and Cossall (Nottinghamshire)]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927