Eglingham

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 15831EGL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1663
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid), Restoration
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Maurice
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the ower [cf. FontNotes]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17545998
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Maurice [aka Maur, Mauritius, Moritz, Morris]
Site Location: Northumberland, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located E of Ingram and Ilderton, 10 km NW of Alnwick
Font Notes:
The National Gazetteer of 1868 notes: "The church is a stone structure, dedicated to St. Maurice. It was rebuilt after the Restoration, having been destroyed, together with the chapels of Old Bewick, Worperton, West Lilburn, and Brandon, by the Scots during the Rebellion, and was enlarged by the addition of a transept in 1836", but does not mention a font. Wilson (1870) notes that the font was moved from a place near the altar to the west at the time of Archdeacon Richard Charles Coxe, in the mid-19th century. A plan of the interior in Wilson (ibid.) shows the font beneath the tower. Wilson does not describe or date the font. Described in Pevsner (1957): "Font. 1663. Octagonal with the simplest ornamental carvings on part of the moulded bowl which still preserves a Perp[endicular] contour." [NB: not to be mistaken with Eglinham, also with a church dedicated to St. Maurice]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868, [transcribed in http://www.bpears.org.uk/genuki/NBL/Eglingham/Gaz1868.html [accessed 14 January 2010]
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northumberland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1957, p. 144
  • Wilson, Frederick Richard, An architectural survey of the churches in the Archdeaconry of Lindisfarne, in the County of Northumberland, containing plans and views […], Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Printed and photo-lithographed by M. and M. W. Lambert, 1870, p. 83