Northampton No. 1
Results: 14 records
B01: design element - architectural - window - Gothic - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
Copyright Instructions: PD
B02: design element - architectural - arch - trefoiled - 16
Scene Description: two on each side, inside the Gothic windows
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
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B03: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: one on each side of the basin, in the spandrel of the double arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
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B04: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: all over the arch surfaces around the basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
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view of font
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Image Source: woodcut by Orlando Jewitt in The Church Builder (1873: 87) and in Rickman & Parker (1881: 225)
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2011 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2523658] [21 May 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the font in the context of the tower arch and the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2011 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2523815] [21 May 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2011 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2523812] [21 May 2012]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in The Gentleman's Magazine (1856)
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Greysman, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2011 by Greysman [www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMBCQH_Font_Church_of_StPeter_Northampton] [accessed 15 May 2012]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Greysman, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2011 by Greysman [www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMBCQH_Font_Church_of_StPeter_Northampton] [accessed 15 May 2012]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: the font with its old cover, on the left hand corner of the central aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mee, 1945
Image Source: B&W photograph in Mee (1945)
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view of font cover - detail
Scene Description: the brightly painted modern cover by G.G. Scott
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Greysman, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 2011 by Greysman [www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMBCQH_Font_Church_of_StPeter_Northampton] [accessed 15 May 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01733NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1320?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century / 15th century (early?), Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter [redundant]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre aisle, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: St Peter's Street, Marefair, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1SR
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the S side of Marefair, near the W end of the old town
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Borough of Northampton
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (from the pre-Conquest church?)
Font Notes:
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Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "the font is richly ornamented in the later English style". Noted in Whellan (1849): "The font, it will be observed, is very similar in design to Queen's Cross." Described and illustrated in The Gentleman's Magazine (issue of July-Dec, 1856, p. 401 and plate): "The font is fine, of the early part of the fifteenth century, --and octagon, panelled with bold and very good work." Described and illustrated in The Church Builder (issue no. 47, July 1873: 87) and in Rickman & Parker (1881), with woodcut by Orlando Jewitt, as a Decorated baptismal font dated ca. 1350, which, with the font at Bloxham, Oxon., "are illustrations of that primitive type of font which treats it as a well. They who remember the wells in the courtyard of the Doge's Palace at Venice [...] will understand this resemblance to a well." Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as an octagonal unmounted baptismal font of the Decorated period/style; the side panels are ornamented with rounded Gothic arches within angular ones with foliage on the upper part; the lower part has tracery of supermullions all round. Listed in Cox-Harvey (1907). Noted in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as one of group of 14th-century fonts in the Decorated style ornamented with varied patterns of blind tracery (in this group are: Offley in Herts.; Weobley in Hereford; Goadby Marwood and Noseley in Leics.; Barrowby, Carlton Scroope and Haydor in Lincs.; Northampton St. Peter's; Kiddington, Bloxham and Woodstock in Oxon.;Brailes in Warwick, and Patrington in Yorkshire). The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 3, 1930) notes: "The churches of St. Peter, the Holy Sepulchre and All Saints are all, as we have seen, probably as old as the Norman Conquest. [...] Bishop Hugh of Lincoln's charter [...] specifies nine by name: All Saints', St. Giles', St. Michael's, Holy Sepulchre, St. Mary's (by the Castle), St. Gregory's, [...] St. Peter's, St. Edmund's and St. Bartholomew's, as well as the chapel of St. Thomas. All these churches then were in existence by 1200 [...] The building is chiefly of late 12th century date, but two fragments of preConquest cross-shafts (fn. 1) found in 1850 point to an earlier church having occupied the site. No part of the present building, however, is older than c.1150– 75 [...] The unmounted octagonal font is of late 14th century date, the sides panelled with cusped tracery under straight-sided crocketed canopies which spring from dwarf buttresses at the angles and terminate in floriated finials. In the upper part, between the canopies, the angles are ornamented with crocketed attached pinnacles." Mee (1945) mentions the "14th century font, rich with tracery, pinnacles, an finials." Pevsner & Cherry (1973) have it as Perpendicular. [NB: the original church was Norman]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 643165 5789414
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.2365, -0.9034
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 14′ 11.4″ N, 0° 54′ 12.24″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Notes: pyramidal octagonal painted cover by G.G. Scott
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 43, 88, 229, 231, 233 and ill. on p. 232
- Byrne, Matthew, Beautiful churches saved by The Churches Conservation Trust, London: Frances Lincoln, 2013, p. 38-43
- 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=51183] [accessed 21 February 2007]
- 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/Arthur%20Mee.htm] [accessed 31 October 2006]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 322
- Rickman, Thomas, An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England, from the Conquest to the Reformation, with a Sketch of the Grecian and Roman Orders, An [7th ed. -- orig. published in 1817], Oxford and London: Parker and Co., 1881, ill. on p. 225
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 96
- Whellan, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Northamptonshire, comprising a general survey of the county, and a history of the Diocese of Peterborough: with separate [...], London: Whittaker & Co., Ave Maria Lane, 1849, p. 126