Pinxton / Esnotrewic? / Pynkston / Snodeswic
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Bevis, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 October 2010 by Dave Bevis [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2121812] [accessed 10 December 2011]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: 1787 drawing by Grimm
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: 1787 Indian-ink-on-paper drawing by Samuel Hieronymus Grimm (1733-1794) in the British Library collections [ref.: P. R. Kaye, I, 71][http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinxton] [accessed 10 December 2011]
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
FontID: 15817PIN
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen [aka St. Helena's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Church Location: Park Lane, Pinxton, Derbyshire NG16 6PS
Country Name: England
Location: Derbyshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6 km EES of Alfreton, 10 km SSW of Mansfield, near the county border with Nottinghamshire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Derby
Historical Region: Union of Mansfield, Hundred of Scarsdale
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: , Medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Cox (1875) writes: "The old font is still preserved close to the western door. It is of large dimensions, and of a plain octagonal form on a well-moulded base. It stands a little over three feet high, and is twenty-nine inches in diameter across the top. The basin is twenty-two inches in diameter and twelve deep." Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1891: "the font consists of a large octagonal basin on a well-moulded base". The British Listed Buildings database [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-79304-church-of-st-helen-pinxton] [accessed 10 December 2011] reports: "Font to west end of north aisle is octagonal with moulded stem and painted panels to each side of the bowl."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 613665 5887858
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Rim Thickness: 8.5 cm approx. [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 72.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 30 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm* approx.
Notes on Measurements: * [in feet/inches in Cox (1875)]
REFERENCES
British Museum, Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum, London: Printed by order of the Trustees, 1844-
Cox, John Charles, 1875-1877
Kelly, Directory of the counties of Derbs, Notts, Leicester and Rutland, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1891