Kirk Newton / Kirknewton

No individual entry found for Kirk Newton/Kirknewton in the Domesday survey. Based on his own excavations of the site, "at the request of the Archdeacon", Wilson (1870) found remnants of a Norman building that precedes the main fabric of the 17th-century church, and rejects any claims that the earlier church was Saxon. The font, Wilson (ibid.) notes, "is panelled in lozenges. It is dated 1663." Noted in Pevsner (1957): "Font, 1663. Octagonal with simple geometrically decorated panels." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: NT9134630251] notes: "Parish church. C13 and C19. Nave 1860 by John Dobson. Tower later C19. [...] To left of chancel arch: C12 carving of Adoration of Magi. [...] 2 fonts: one at entrance to transept. C18 marble with baluster stem; the other at west end of nave dated 1663, with ornamental panelled octagonal shaft and bowl." Illustrated in the Northumberland Natural Park Authority website [http://www.northumberlandnationalpark.org.uk/stgregoryinterior] [accessed 15 January 2010]. The font is octagonal all over, of the type that looks like an integrated octagonal column, the basin practically of the same width as the stem and lower base; rectangular panels and mouldings all over, a few with lozenge inserts; one of the panels of the basin side has the date 1663. [NB: we have no information on the original font of this church]