Rolleston nr. Newark-on-Trent / Roldestun / Rollestone / Rollestune
Image copyright © Rolleston Parish Church, 2009
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rolleston Parish Church, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2009, in the Rolleston Parish Church web pages [http://www.rollestonchurch.org.uk/architectural%20notes.html] [accessed 19 October 2009]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rolleston Parish Church, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2009, in the Rolleston Parish Church web pages [http://www.rollestonchurch.org.uk/architectural%20notes.html] [accessed 19 October 2009]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © JThomas, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 October 2011 by JThomas [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2657001] [accessed 19 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "South doorway to Holy Trinity church. Clearly 12th century, with a billet moulding and medieval iron hinges on a later plank door."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2012 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3062760] [accessed 19 August 2015]
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view of church exterior - south wall
Scene Description: Source caption: "Fragments of possibly Saxon carving built into the south wall of Holy Trinity church by the south door."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2012 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3062764] [accessed 19 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Historic, but sadly locked church of Holy Trinity at Rolleston. Externally most inviting, with a 12th and 14th century tower restored in 1889, the nave and chancel similarly medieval with 19th century restorations and fragments of Norman and possibly Saxon origins."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2012 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3062754] [accessed 19 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rolleston Parish Church, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2009, in the Rolleston Parish Church web pages [http://www.rollestonchurch.org.uk/architectural%20notes.html] [accessed 19 October 2009]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 15525ROL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: Station Road, Rolleston, Nottinghamshire NG23 5SE
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 5 km ESE of Southwell, 8 km SW of Newark-on-Trent
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham
Historical Region: Hundred of Thurgarton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Restoration
There are three entries for this Rolleston [variant spelling] in the Domesday book [http://opendomesday.org/place/SK7452/rolleston/] [accessed 19 August 2015], one of which mentions a priest and a church in it. Cox (1912) notes: "small octagonal font 16th cent., cover 17th cent." Pevsner & Williamson (1979) mention a 17th-century font cover, but not the font. The font Is described and illustrated in the Parish web pages [www.rollestonchurch.org.uk/architectural notes.html] [accessed 19 October 2009], however, note: "The present font dates from about the period of Charles II [i.e., 1660-1685] the previous one having probably shared the fate which befell many others round Newark during its long siege in the Civil Wars of the 17th century. Previous to the restoration of the nave in 1895, it stood on the south side of the nave, immediately opposite the south doorway." The Southwell & Nottingham Church History Project [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/rolleston/hintro.php] [accessed 19 August 2015] reports a 16th-century font in this church. The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides and a rounded underbowl, with a moulding at the upper rim and another at the junction of basin and pedestal base; the latter is also octagonal and plain, with a two volume lower base (the upper, octagonal; the lower, square); raised on a polygonal plinth. The wooden cover is a low octagonal pyramid with a crown-like platform at the base; knob finial; some paint remains on it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
53.064424,
-0.894473
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
53° 3′ 51.92″ N,
0° 53′ 40.1″ W
UTM: 30U 641083 5881510
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979