Woodhorn

INFORMATION

FontID: 15843WOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Northumberland, North East
Directions to Site: Located E of Bothal, 11 km NE of Morpeth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the church
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
Wilson (1870) notes: "The font is round. It is of doubtful antiquity; mutilated and shorn. It stands at the west end of the church." [NB: The Ecclesiologist (vol. 4, 1845: 285) reports this church's rebuilding "with many faults, but in good spirit". [NB: Pevsner (1957) notes " the remains of and Early Norman church" and "two fragments of a Saxon cross-shaft"; if this is not the original font, we have no information on the early font of this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

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