Church of St. Nicholas, font

HER Number

13533

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Church of St. Nicholas, font

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

Fine marble font decorated with the arms of Roberti Rodes, benefactor of Newcastle churches. He was the son of a mayor of Newcastle, and was a lawyer and was mayor himself 1429-31. He sat for Newcastle in five Parliaments between 1427 and 1441. His main career however was leading administrator for Durham Cathedral Priory.

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