Rempstone

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15524REM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Old Church of St. Peter [aka St. Peter in the Rushes]
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church, All Saints' [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 18 km S of Nottingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
Additional Comments: disused font / restored font - re-cycled font
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rempstone
Font Notes:
Cox (1912) notes: "Old church pulled down in 1771, to find material for successor in village […] Present church (All Saints), cheaply built in pseudoclassical style […] Furniture of church as mean as fabric, save that ironwork supporting small marble basin, serving as font, is well wrought and of effective design. [NB: we have no information on the date of the latter, but it could be the original of the 18th-century building]. The Rempstone Village web page [http://www.rempstonevillage.org.uk/church.html] [accessed 19 October 2009] notes: "The remains of the old church have long since disappeared. But much of the stone was reused in the new building […] The original bowl of the font from St Peter's is still being used in the present church."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912, p. 170 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 19 October 2009]