Scarrington No. 2

INFORMATION

FontID: 15504SCA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John of Beverley
Church Patron Saints: St. John of Beverley
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located near Orston, about 7 km ENE of Bingham, E of Nottingham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1662
Century and Period: 17th century(mid), Restoration
Cognate Fonts: the fonts at East Bridgford, Newark, Orston, Scarrington, Shelford, Sibthorpe, Tythby, Walkeringham and Warton, all in Notinghamshire, as cognates of the same period [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
A second font [the one in use in the church?] for this site is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907), in Cox (1912), in Guildford (1927) and in Pevsner & Williamson (1979) as a Restoration baptismal font dated 1662. [cf. Index entry for Sacrrington No. 1 for a disused Early English basin from this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979