Ossington
INFORMATION
FontID: 15522OSS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Rood
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross
Church Location: Holy Rood, Ossington, Nottinghamshire, NG23 6LH
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 12 km N of Newark-on-Trent
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Cox (1912) notes: "Font has silver-gilt bowl." The 'Official Listing Description' entry for this church in the Southwell Churches website [http://southwellchurches.history.nottingham.ac.uk/ossington/hlisting.php] [accessed 9 December 2009] notes: "Fittings include […a] C19 font with round alabaster stem on octagonal base, carrying octagonal bowl with quatrefoil panels." No font is mentioned in Pevsner & Williamson (1979). [NB: the present church is a complete re-building of the original medieval building, of which documentary evidence dates to 1144, but we have no information on its font]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.177778,
-0.865833
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 10′ 40″ N,
0° 51′ 57″ W
UTM: 30U 642626 5894174
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912