Shipwash / Sheepwash / Sheep Wash
INFORMATION
Font ID: 15936SHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: [disappeared church?]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Site Location: Northumberland, North East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located S of Bothal, 8 km E of Morpeth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle
Additional Comments: disused font / re-cycled font as trough for cattle / restored font
Font Notes:
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Gibson (1848) notes: "The large bason of its stone-font is mentioned by Mr. Hodgson, as being (when he wrote) used as a trough for the cattle to drink from, in the fold-yard of the rectory-house, but it has been rescued by the present incumbent." The National Gazetteer of 1868 reported that there was no church in Sheep Wash. [***Hodgson's ref to be followed up on***]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868, [transcribed in http://www.bpears.org.uk/genuki/NBL/Bothal/Gaz1868.html [accessed 1 February 2010]]
- 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. 138