Chollerton No. 2
Results: 4 records
view of font and cover
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: all around
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the two fonts, side by side, at the west end of the nave
design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals - 4
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15874CHO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Giles
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17527598
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Address: Chollerton, Hexham NE46 4TF, United Kingdom
Site Location: Northumberland, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A6079, 4 km NE of Chollerford, 11-12 kms N of Hexham, about 40 km W of Newcastle upon Tyne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle
Additional Comments: composite font?
Font Notes:
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Noted in Pevsner (1957): "a plain circular bowl on a C13 foot with four shafts and moulded capitals.-- Jacobean font cover with thick double-scrolls." The entry for this church in British Listed Buildings [Listing NGR: NY9311171917] notes: "Parish Church. C12, C14, c1796. Restored and gothicized 1873 [...] 2 fonts, one a large re-used Roman altar, the other C13 with round bowl on square stem with broach-stopped chamfers and 4 colonettes with moulded capitals. C17 font cover with scrolls and turned finial." [cf. Index entry for Chollerton No. 1 for a converted Anglo-Roman altar later used as a font]
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 55° 2' 29.2" N, 2° 6' 34.0" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Hall, Anna Maria [Mrs. S.C.], Sketches of Irish character, London: Frederick Westley and A. H. Davies, 1829, p. 127