Church of St. Nicholas, font cover
Church of St. Nicholas, font cover
HER Number
13534
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Church of St. Nicholas, font cover
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Font
Site Type: Specific
Font
General Period
MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Medieval 1066 to 1540
Form of Evidence
Structure
Description
The exquisitely carved wooden font cover, similar to that in St. Andrew's church, dates from around 1500.
Easting
424900
Northing
564000
Grid Reference
NZ424900564000
Sources
Anthony Goodman, 2009, The Church and Religion in Newcastle 1080-1540 in Diana Newton and AJ Pollard (eds), 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead before 1700, page 74; Dr J.F. Hodgson, 1912, Font and Cover of S. Nicholas Church, Newcastle on Tyne, Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, Vol VI, pp 245-246