St. Catherine nr. Nottingham

INFORMATION

FontID: 15792CAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Catherine
Church Patron Saints: St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine, Katharine]
Country Name: England
Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on St. Ann's Well Road, in NE outer Nottingham
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
Noted in Cox (1912): "The old font remains." Cox (1912) notes: "Font bowl Trans[itional] now in St. Catherine's church, Nottingham; standing on squared embattled base, I5th cent., said to come from Saxendale." The Thoroton Society (1909) reports that a baptismal font from the ruined church of St. Helen, South Wheatley, "is now in use in St. Catharine's, Nottingham". Noted in Pevsner & Williamson (1979): "Plain C13 font from South Wheatley". [NB: there appears to be some confusion in some of the sources between the fonts at St. Catherine's and the one at Cossall, both places with churches dedicated to St. Catherine, and both within greater Nottingham -- to be resolved].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, Nottinghamshire, London: Allen, 1912
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979
Thoroton Society, "Summer excursion 1909: North Wheatley", 13 (1909), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1909