Cartington Castle / Kartyngton Castle nr. Thropton

INFORMATION

Font ID: 15900CAR

Object Type: Stoup?

Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval

Church / Chapel Name: Castle chapel?

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

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

Directions to Site: The ruins of the castle are located off the B6341, near Thropton, 4-5 km NW of Rothbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle

Additional Comments: disused stoup? / buried stoup?

Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartington_Castle

Font Notes: Click to view

Mackenzie (1825) note the discovery in the ruins of the castle of "what appears to have been a font for holy water" and a number of religious statues and other sacred objects, which "are perhaps sufficient to prove, that near the front, or south of the castle, has formerly stood a church or chapel, now totally buried in oblivion." [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the recovered stoup]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

MacKenzie, Eneas, An historical, topographical, and descriptive view of the County of Northumberland, and of those parts of the County of Durham situated north of the river Tyne, with Berwick upon Tweed and […], Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed and published by Mackenzie and Dent […], 1825, vol. 2: 70