Warwick No. 7 / Waruuic

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design element - patterns - fluted - diagonal

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Aidan McRae Thomson, of Warwickshire Churches [warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/] [accessed 7 February 2015]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 January 2012 by Robin Stott [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2950391] [accessed 17 December 2014]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Image Source: 7 August 1867 drawing by William Colliss (d.1926) at the Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum [www.search.windowsonwarwickshire.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=27838] [accessed 17 December 2014]

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view of font

Scene Description: the stem and lower base appear to be a replacement

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Aidan McRae Thomson, of Warwickshire Churches [warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/] [accessed 7 February 2015]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [www.stnicholaswarwick.org.uk/images/pics/christening baby1.jpg] [accessed 17 December 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19588WAR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: St. Nicholas Church Street, Warwick CV34 4JD -- Tel.: 01926 419905

Country Name: England

Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands

Directions to Site: Located in the historic centre, opposite Warwick Castle

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry

Historical Region: Hundred of Tremlowe [in Domesday]

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Aidan McRae Thomson, of Warwickshire Churches [warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/], for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Warwick [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2864/warwick/] [accessed 17 December 2014], but neither mentions cleric or church in it. Notices of the churches of Warwickshire (vol. 1, 1847) notes that the original chancel of this church "had been the Choir of an ancient Nunnery, destroyed by the Danes in the year 1016 [...] The principal entrance is through the lower stage of the tower, which forms a vestibule or lobby, on the walls of which are affixed two monuments from the former Church. [...] The Font resembles in shape a fluted stone urn with a twisted fluted cover, and is placed at the west end of the Church." The present font has a tall round basin decorated with a roll moulding at the upper rim, a diagonal ribbed pattern all around below; the basin of the font is probably 16th-18th century, but the stem and lower base appear to be a later replacement; the description matches the font described in 1847 [cf. supra].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.281861, -1.581312

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 16′ 54.7″ N, 1° 34′ 52.72″ W

UTM: 30U 596778 5793336

REFERENCES

Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological Society. Architectural Committee, Notices of the churches of Warwickshire, Rivington, London; [etc.]: Henry T. Cooke, 1847-