South Muskham
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15520MUS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century / 17th century, Norman? / Restoration?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Wilfrid
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Wilfrid%27s_Church,_South_Muskham
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Wilfrid [aka Wilfred, Wilfrith]
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 4 km N of Newark-on-Trent
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
Font Notes:
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Described in Cox (1912): "Octagonal font, 40 in. high, 30 in. in diameter; flat cover I7th cent." Pevsner & Williamson (1979) note: "Octagonal, either Norman much pulled about or, more likely, a C17 imitation of Norman."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Cox (1912)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 145 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 19 October 2009]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 316