Paulerspury / Pauler's Pury / Paveli's Peri
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B01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: some arranged in palmette fashion within beaded-tape scallops; covering the middle and upper parts of the basin sides
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Image Source: engraving of a drawing by F. Simpson Jr., in Simpson (1828: 8)
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B02: design element - motifs - beaded-tape
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Image Source: engraving of a drawing by F. Simpson Jr., in Simpson (1828: 8)
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BBU01: design element - motifs - sawtooth
Scene Description: all around the upper rim side
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Image Source: engraving of a drawing by F. Simpson Jr., in Simpson (1828: 8)
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view of font
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Image Source: engraving of a drawing by F. Simpson Jr., in Simpson (1828: 8)
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian Rob, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 February 2007 by Ian Rob [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/343900] [accessed 11 June 2012]
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view of basin - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-paule.html] [accessed 11 June 2012]
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view of basin - southwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-paule.html] [accessed 11 June 2012]
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view of basin - northeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-paule.html] [accessed 11 June 2012]
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view of basin - north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-paule.html] [accessed 11 June 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01726PAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1140-1150?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Norman
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Workshop from St Peter's, Northampton
Cognate Fonts: The fonts at Harpole, Green's Norton and Mears Ashby; also Tiffield [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James the Apostle / St. James the Great
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the S doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Address: 114 High Street, Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, NN12 7NA
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A5, 5 km SSE of Towcester, about 20 km S of Northampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Cleley
Additional Comments: damaged font: considerable damage to upper rim probably related to the cover anchors/staples
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Simpson (1828) as a baptismal font of the Norman period; Simpson points out the bead and nail-head motifs on this basin; he gives the location as the south side of the nave, west end, but informs of a plan to move it at the time [i.e., ca. 1828]. Simpson's illustration shows the bucket-shaped basin mounted on a square base, obviously not the original. Noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 simply as "a curious font". Described in Cox-Harvey (1907) as a handsomely ornamented cylindrical bowl font of the Norman period. Maguire (1970) includes this font in a group the decoration of which appear to be related to that on a fragment from St Andrew's Priory. Pevsner & Cherry (1973) relate the "leaf capitals inside the lunettes and in the spandrels below" to the decoration on the font at Tiffield. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) with comment: "The font is a product of the lively workshop from St Peter's, Northampton, active in the 1140s and '50s. Other fonts by these sculptors are found in the county at Green's Norton, Paulerspury, Dodford, Tiffield and Weedon Lois, and nearby at Maids' Moreton (Bucks)." The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 5, 2002) notes: "The earliest feature is the late 12th-century tub font, carved with ribbed foliage in beaded lunettes."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 640098 5774410
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.102477, -0.954473
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 6′ 8.92″ N, 0° 57′ 16.1″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 14.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm* / 59 cm**
Diameter (includes rim): 77.5 cm* / 78 cm**
Basin Depth: 35 cm
Height of Basin Side: 50 cm* / 50 cm**
Height of Base: 45 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm
Notes on Measurements: * [Simpson (1828)] -- **[CRSBI (2008)]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 211
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51206] [accessed 22 February 2007]
- Maguire, Henry P., "A twelfth century workshop in Northampton", 9, 1 (1970), Gesta, 1970, pp. 11-25; p. 17-19 and fig. 15
- Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2], vol. 2: 220
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 371, 432
- Simpson, Francis, A series of ancient baptismal fonts: chronologically arranged, drwan by F. Simpson, Jun., engraved by R. Roberts, London: Septimus Prowett, 1828, p. 8 and ill. on opp. p.