Chatton

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15862CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 18th century
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Cross
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the SE corner of the nave
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26676451
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Cross
Site Location: Northumberland, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km E of Wooler
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle
Font Notes:
The National Gazetteer of 1868 notes: "The church, dedicated to the Holy Cross, is a stone edifice in the Gothic style, and contains several beautiful stained-glass memorial windows. The register commences 1713", but does not mention a font. Wilson (1870) states that the church "is a modern edifice, built, originally, in the likeness of a substantial shed or barn […] The font is modern; and stands in the south-east angle of the nave."

REFERENCES

  • The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868, [transcribed in http://www.bpears.org.uk/genuki/NBL/Chatton/Gaz1868.html [accessed 19 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. 67