Church of St. John, font cover
Church of St. John, font cover
HER Number
15330
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Church of St. John, 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
Described by Hodgson in 1912. Smaller than that in St. Nicholas Cathedral (HER 13534) but " equally meritorious in point of design, and equally well preserved". C15 in date, Hodgson suggested that it was made by the same artificer as St. Nicholas. "nothing better than either of them could be desired, or indeed found, in any of the genuine 15th century covers remaining in the Kingdom". He states that the font cover was wholly reproduced/restored in the 17th century. The leafage is softer and bossier than than at St. Nicholas.
Easting
424700
Northing
564000
Grid Reference
NZ424700564000
Sources
Dr J.F. Hodgson, 1912, Font Cover in St. John's Church, Newcastle, Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, Vol VI, pp 249-250; The Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, information sheet; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond (second edition revised by J. Grundy, G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare) , 1992, The Buildings of England: Northumberland, p 428