Scarrington No. 2

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15504SCA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1662
Font Century and Period/Style: 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]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John of Beverley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_John_of_Beverley,_Scarrington
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John of Beverley
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Orston, about 7 km ENE of Bingham, E of Nottingham
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, p. 174
  • Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 176 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 19 October 2009]
  • Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927, p. 163
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 327