Tyne and Wear HER(13533): Church of St. Nicholas, font - Details
13533
Newcastle
Church of St. Nicholas, font
Newcastle
NZ26SW
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Font
Font
MEDIEVAL
Medieval 1066 to 1540
Structure
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.
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564000
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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