Ovingham

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R01: design element - motifs - flat moulding

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 15938OVI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Ovingham, Northumberland, NE42 6AJ
Country Name: England
Location: Northumberland, North East
Directions to Site: Located 16 km E of Hexham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Newcastle
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
No entry found for Ovingham in the Domesday survey. Pevsner (1957) reports: "Font. Circular, on four shafts." A flat moulding at the upper basin side, and very simple mouldings on the clustered colonnettes of the base. The wooden cover is flat and round, modern, but the upper rim of the font has metal staples from an older cover system.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.967853, -1.868764
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 58′ 4.27″ N, 1° 52′ 7.55″ W
UTM: 30U 572420 6091800

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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