Scremerston
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15853SCR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1842?
Font Century and Period/Style: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Scremerston, Berwick, Northumberland, TD15 2RB
Site Location: Northumberland, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SSE of Berwick-on-Tweed
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle
Historical Region: formerly Durham
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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The National Gazetteer of 1868 notes: "The church is an ancient structure, and once belonged to Holy Island", but does not mention a font. Wilson (1870), however, states: "Scremerston church was built in 1842" and mentions a font at the west end of the nave. [NB: we have found no record of an earlier church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 563227 6177380
REFERENCES
- The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868, [transcribed in http://www.bpears.org.uk/genuki/NBL/Ancroft/Gaz1868.html [accessed 18 January 2010]]
- 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. 52