St. Catherine nr. Nottingham

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15792CAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Catherine
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Catharine%27s_Church,_Nottingham
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine, Katharine]
Site Location: Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on St. Ann's Well Road, in NE outer Nottingham
Additional Comments: composite font? / moved font?
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, p. 70, 231 / [http://ia301109.us.archive.org/3/items/nottinghamsh00coxuoft/nottinghamsh00coxuoft.pdf] [accessed 14 October 2009]
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nottinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1979, p. 261-262
  • Thoroton Society, "Summer excursion 1909: North Wheatley", 13 (1909), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1909