Morpeth

INFORMATION

FontID: 15897MOR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: England

Location: Northumberland, North East

Directions to Site: Located on the A192, off (E) the A1, N of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northumberland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1957