Aston le Walls / Aston-le-Walls / Estone

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin

Image Source: digital image in CRSBI [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-astlw.html] [accessed 24 March 2009]

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design element - motifs - chevron

Scene Description: on the northwest side corner of the basin, below the head

Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)

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design element - motifs - diaper or saltire

Scene Description: a total of 36 (6 x 6) motifs on the north side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)

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design element - motifs - interlace - quatrefoil - in a circle - floral insert

Scene Description: on the east side of the basin

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design element - motifs - plant - acanthus

Scene Description: large, on the west side of the basin

Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: One at each corner of the upper basin

Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)

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view of basin - north side

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view of basin - west side

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 March 2006 [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/142322] [accessed 29 March 2009]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2008 by Jonathan Billinger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/772743] [accessed 25 September 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font and cover on the foreground, left (north) side of the centre aisle

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view of font - northwest side

Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)

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view of font - southwest side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01727AST

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard

Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard

Church Location: Aston le Walls, Daventry NN11 6UF, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located just W of the A361, 15 km N of Banbury, 16 km S of Daventry

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough

Historical Region: Hundred of Chipping Warden -- Hundred of Warden [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the N nave arcade, opposite the S entranceway

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Aston [-le-Walls] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4950/aston-le-walls/] [accessed 25 September 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The font here is described and illustrated in Paley (1844) as a cubical Norman font with heads at the four top basin corners; the basin sides are "sculptured with foliage in low relief, or diapered an ornament frequently used on Norman abaci, &c"; the font is illustrated as having a wide quadrangular base and a plinth or "priest's stone" on the side ot it. Cox & Harvey (1907) describe it as an early cubical font sculptured with foliage and geometrical patterns. Tyrrell-Green (1928) describes this font as "richly ornamented". Noted in Mee (1945) simply as a Norman font. In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Square, Norman, three sides carved. On one a knot pattern, on the next intersected arches, on the third a very asymmetrical Tree of Life." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP4955550808] notes: "Church. C12/C13, and early C14. Restored c.1870 and 1881-2 [...] Romanesque font, square carved with intersecting blind arcading on south side, knot pattern to east, tree of life to west and chequer pattern to north." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2018): "The closest comparison for the font is the more elaborate and probably later font at Braybrooke, which is similar in its form, its use of a different design for each face, and in the knotwork motif on the E[ast] face here. Foliage similar to that on the W face of the font [...] is found in conjunction with intersecting arcading on the font at Magdalen College, Brackley. The Brackley font also has dogtooth, however, and must be considerably later than this one, where the diapering and knotwork suggest an earlier date."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.15367, -1.2771

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 9′ 13.21″ N, 1° 16′ 37.56″ W

UTM: 30U 617868 5779530

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead lining and drain a/p Paley (1844: unpaged)

Diameter (inside rim): 52.5 cm* [52 - 54.5 cm**]

Basin Depth: 30 cm

Basin Total Height: 50 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 50 cm (base not incl.)

Trapezoidal Basin: 73 x 73 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * [Paley (1844)] -- ** [The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (2008)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: square and flat, with flat cross frame atop; appears modern

REFERENCES

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. Accessed: 2009-03-24 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928