Holystone

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15881HOL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin [modern dedication; earlier dedication unknown]

Site Location: Northumberland, North East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located SE of Harbottle, in Coquetdale, at the edge of the Northumberland National Park

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle

Additional Comments: disappeared font?

Font Notes: Click to view

[NB: the present church is the 19th-century re-building of the earlier church of the medieval Augustinian nunnery; we have no information on the font of the earlier church, which probably had parochial functions]