Woodhorn
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15843WOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Northumberland, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located E of Bothal, 11 km NE of Morpeth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle
Additional Comments: damaged font: mutilated and shorn -- disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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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, p. 325
- 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. 181