Shipwash / Sheepwash / Sheep Wash

INFORMATION

FontID: 15936SHI
Church/Chapel: [disappeared church?]
Country Name: England
Location: Northumberland, North East
Directions to Site: Located S of Bothal, 8 km E of Morpeth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
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
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