Barnwell All Saints / Barnewell / Bernewelle / Bernwella / King's Barnwell

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view of church exterior

only the chancel of the original church remains, the rest of the church having been demolished in the 19th century [cf. FontNotes]
Scene Description: only the chancel of the original church remains, the rest of the church having been demolished in the 19th century [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Trolove, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2008 by Michael Trolove [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/825136] [accesed 16 May 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01390BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [since 1821 a chapel of ease to Barnwell St. Andrew's]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: only the old chancel remains now; the rest of the church was in an advanced state of disrepair and was demolished in 1821
Church Address: Barnwell, Northamptonshire PE8 5PX
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A605, just across from Barnwell St Andrews, 3 km S of Oundle, 25 km SW of Peterborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Huxloe
Font Notes:
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period [NB: C&H give the county as Cambridgeshire]. Described in the Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 3, 1930): "The font is ancient and consists of a plain octagonal-to-square bowl standing on four short pillars." Noted in Mee (1945): "medieval font on four small pillars".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 672348 5814146

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal-to-square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 188
  • Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945, [http://northamptoncastle.homeip.net/northampton/books/Arthur%20Mee.htm] [accessed 15 October 2006]