Quarndon / Quorndon

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15515QUA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Old Church [partly demolished]
Church Address: the surviving Norman tower is on Old Vicarage Lane. The new church is located on Church Road, Quarndon, Derbyshire
Site Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km NNW of Derby, in Amber Valley
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarndon
Font Notes:
Lewis (1848) notes: "The church is an ancient structure, with a campanile tower nearly covered with ivy, and a Norman arch at the entrance." A new church was built ca. 1870 on a different part of the civil parish, on the hill, and Kelly's Directory of 1881 describes the modern font in the new church: "the font is of Derbyshire spar, and was presented by the builders" [NB: the old Norman church, of which only its tower remains, was demolished at the time of the building of the new church on the hill; we have no information on the original font of the old church].

REFERENCES

  • Kelly, Eric Robert, Kelly's Directory of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, London: Kelly & Co., 1881, p. 1120
  • Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1848-1849, pp. 623-627