Baptism Font - St Peter - Widmerpool, Nottinghamshire
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A circular ashlar font decorated with quatrefoil panels and supported on colonnettes in St Peter's church, Wdmerpool.
Waymark Code: WM10F4E
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 04/27/2019
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"The font is situated in the south-west corner. It is of 14th century origin with open circular bowl, decorated with floral carved oak mounting around the rim and supported by a Victorian stone pedestal standing on a plinth. The register reveals a child was baptised in it on the day Charles Stuart was beheaded (1649), a fact echoed in the unmarked graves in the churchyard of two soldiers killed at Willoughby Field in 1648."
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