Morpeth
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15897MOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Northumberland, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A192, off (E) the A1, N of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle
Font Notes:
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Gibson (1848) notes: "The font is not remarkable". Noted in Pevsner (1957): "Font. Octagonal on four attached shafts." [NB: the Church of St. James, also in Morpeth is 19th-century and has a 1864 font designed by Edmond Blackett [source: http://www.stjamesanglicanchurchmorpeth.com.au/page/315332271 [accessed 26 January 2010]]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Gibson, William Sidney, Descriptive and historical notices of some remarkable Northumbrian castles, churches, and antiquities: in a series of visits […] First series, London; Newcastle-upon-Tyne: William Pickering; Robert Robinson, 1848, p. 128
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northumberland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1957, p. 214