Ford nr. Berwick-on-Tweed
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern, mid-19thC font
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Image Source: digital photograph 2025 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern, mid-19thC font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2026
Image Source: digital photograph 2025 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern, mid-19thC font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2026
Image Source: digital photograph 2025 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: mid-13thC church restored in the mid-19thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2026
Image Source: digital photograph 2025 by Colin Smith
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 15855FOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Site Location: Northumberland, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km from Pallinsburn, 20 km SW of Berwick-on-Tweed
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle
Additional Comments: disappeared font
Font Notes:
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The National Gazetteer of 1868 notes: "The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a fine old structure built about the middle of the 13th century, and enlarged and beautified in 1852", but does not mention a font. Wilson (1870) refers to this church as an "Early English edifice" that, "though restored 1853, it has an appearance of great serene antiquity". The font, Wilson (ibid.) adds, "is modern, it is of Coldstream stone, and carved with Early English decorations." [NB: we have no information on the original font of this church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 557922 6165507
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, p. 46