Syerston

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

UB01: design element - patterns - tracery

INFORMATION

FontID: 15508SYE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located near East Stoke, 10 om SW of Newark-on-Trent
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Described in Bailey (1900): "The font is ascribed to the fifteenth century, and is remarkable as having what appears to be a kneeling-stone for the officiating minister at baptisms." Described in Cox (1912): "Octagonal Dec[orated] font has good tracery on shaft, and well-moulded base." Noted in Guilford (1927) as 15th-century font. Pevsner & Williamson (1979) described it as "octagonal, with some tracery", but do not date it.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Bailey, A.W., "Summer excursion 1900: Syerston church", 4 (1900), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1900
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Guilford, Everard Leaver, Nottinghamshire, London: Methuen, 1927