Warsop / Church Warsop

Hill (1914) notes: "The Domesday Survey, 1086, records that at Warsop there was a priest, a church, and a mill. The main part of Warsop, which had belonged before the Conquest to three Saxon lords, Godric Leuiet and Ulchel, was one of the 174 manors in Nottinghamshire held by the great Norman baron Roger de Busli." The new font here is noted and illustrated in the Southwell Churches website [http://southwellchurches.nottingham.ac.uk/warsop/hhistory.php] [accessed 6 January 2010]: "The Parish Church of SS Peter and Paul was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 […] According to Glynne, 13th December 1851, 'there is a fine new font of octagonal form'". The modern font is of a Perpendicular design, and consists of an octagonal basin decorated with inscribed floral and heraldic motifs inscribed in quatrefoils on the sides, and a graded underbowl chamfer; the octagonal stem has rectangular panels and the splaying octagonal lower base is moulded; the wooden cover is round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; also modern. No font is mentioned in Pevsner & Williamson (1979). [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]