Nuthurst nr. Henely-in-Arden

INFORMATION

Font ID: 19552NUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Nuthurst Chapel [chapel of ease to Hampton-in-Arden] [disappeared]
Church Notes: original chapel of ca. 1200; a later church was built here in 1844
Church Address: [NB: " the site of the medieval chapel of Nuthurst is marked by the present mortuary chapel"]
Site Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Originally located 4 km N of Henely-in-Arden, 13 km from Hampton-in-Arden, its mother church [NB: " the site of the medieval chapel of Nuthurst is marked by the present mortuary chapel"]
Historical Region: Hundred of Hemlingford
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (did the disappeared ca.1200 chapel have a font?)
Font Notes:
The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 4, 1947) notes: "In about 1170 Bishop Richard of Coventry confirmed to the Priory of Kenilworth the church of Hampton with its chapels, [...] of which one is definitely said in 1216 to be at Nuthurst. [...] As late as 1567 Edmund Fulwood of Tanworth granted certain lands to trustees for the support of a resident priest and the repair of the chapel, [...] but by 1591 the chapel was 'decayed' and as such was among properties granted to the notorious land speculators Tipper and Dawe."

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.