Mattersey / Madressei / Maresay / Mattersea
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B01: design element - motifs - foliage
INFORMATION
FontID: 15519MAT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Abbey Road, Mattersey, Nottinghamshire, DN10 5DX
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 13 km N of Retford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
Century and Period: 11th century, Medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Cox (1912) notes a "new font, imitation E[arly] E[nglish]" in this church. Noted also in Pevsner & Williamson (1979) as a font decorated with "highly naturalistic foliage" of mid-19th century date. [NB: probably a replacement font from the mid-19th century renovation; we have no information on the font from the medieval church mentioned in Domesday]. [NB: A late-12th century priory existed in this village, its ruins still visible about a mile east of the village]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 635628 5918707
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979