Aston le Walls / Aston-le-Walls / Estone
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view of font - northwest side
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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
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)
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design element - motifs - plant - acanthus
Scene Description: large, on the west side of the basin
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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
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)
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design element - motifs - chevron
Scene Description: on the northwest side corner of the basin, below the head
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged)
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Stowell, 2006
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Billinger, 2008
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 font - southwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ron Baxter & CRSBI, 2009
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 - interlace - quatrefoil - in a circle - floral insert
Scene Description: on the east side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ron Baxter & CRSBI, 2009
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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view of basin - north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ron Baxter & CRSBI, 2009
Image Source: digital image in CRSBI [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-astlw.html] [accessed 24 March 2009]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 - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches
Scene Description: on the south side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ron Baxter & CRSBI, 2009
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view of basin - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ron Baxter & CRSBI, 2009
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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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font and cover on the foreground, left (north) side of the centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ron Baxter & CRSBI, 2009
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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01727AST
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the N nave arcade, opposite the S entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Church Address: Aston le Walls, Daventry NN11 6UF, UK
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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]
Additional Comments: damaged font / repaired font
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 617868 5779530
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.15367, -1.2771
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 9′ 13.21″ N, 1° 16′ 37.56″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 211
- 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]
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, [unpaged]
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 72