Plumtree
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15523PLU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1870s?
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th century, Victorian
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Mary_the_Virgin,_Plumtree
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located between Tollerton and Keyworth, SE of Nottingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Noted in Cox (1912) as a new font. Described in the Southwell Churches website [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/plumtree/hhistory.php] [accessed 9 December 2009]: "The font (new) is of white Mansfield stone, its cover is of oak." [NB: the font is probably a replacement introduced in the 1870s' renovation of the church; the church tower, re-built in the early 20th-century, is said to be originally Norman built on Anglo-Saxon foundations, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]. No font mentioned for this church in Pevsner & Williamson (1979).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, white Mansfield stone
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 161 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 19 October 2009]