Cresswell

INFORMATION

FontID: 15849CRE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Country Name: England
Location: Northumberland, North East
Directions to Site: Located 6 km N of Ashington
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, beneath the chancel arch
Date: ca. 1836?
Century and Period: 19th century, Victorian
Wilson (1870) reports a font under the chancel arch. It must be of the same date as the church, "a new edifice, built in the Norman style". [NB: there appears not to have been an earlier church in this locality]

REFERENCES

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