Doddington nr. Wooler

Results: 5 records

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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inscription

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © T N Towill, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 February 2014 by James T N Towill [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3841069] [accessed 14 April 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Source caption: "The interior of the Church of St Mary and St Michael, Doddington. The church building largely dates from the 13th century and has 19th century additions."
Scene Description: Source caption: "The interior of the Church of St Mary and St Michael, Doddington. The church building largely dates from the 13th century and has 19th century additions."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Graham Robson, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2013 by Graham Robson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3615162] [accessed 14 April 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 15837DOD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Michael
Church Location: Doddington, Northumberland NE71 6AL
Country Name: England
Location: Northumberland, North East
Directions to Site: Located on the B6525, 4 km NNE of Wooler
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel at the W end
Century and Period: 12th century [altered], Norman [altered]
Font Notes:
There is no individual entry for this Doddington in the Domesday survey. Wilson (1870) writes: "The font has the date 1723 carved upon it." Pevsner (1957) writes: "Circular, dated 1723, but in fact Norman, that is using a Norman font-bowl with cable-moulding and shallow arcading." The English Heritage entry [Listing NGR: NT9957232233] (1986) notes: "Re-cut Norman font with capitals of columns to former blind arcading." The Church of England site [www.achurchnearyou.com/doddington-st-mary-st-michael/ [accessed 20 January 2010] notes that the present church was "Built on the site of a twelfth century church, the present church building has undergone various alterations – not least the reversal of the interior axis, so that the chancel is in the west and the baptistry in the east."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.583626, -2.008063
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 35′ 1.06″ N, 2° 0′ 29.03″ W
UTM: 30U 562527 6160186

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: [1723]

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northumberland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1957
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