Chollerton No. 2

Results: 4 records

design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals - 4

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: all around

view of font and cover

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the two fonts, side by side, at the west end of the nave

INFORMATION

FontID: 15874CHO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: Chollerton, Hexham NE46 4TF, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Northumberland, North East
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
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

Church 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