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B01: design element - architectural - window - Gothic - 8

Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

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B02: design element - architectural - arch - trefoiled - 16

Scene Description: two on each side, inside the Gothic windows

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

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

Image Source: B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2011 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2523658] [21 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

Image Source: B&W photograph in Mee (1945)

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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

Image Source: woodcut by Orlando Jewitt in The Church Builder (1873: 87) and in Rickman & Parker (1881: 225)

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view of font

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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view of font and cover

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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

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 font cover - detail

Scene Description: the brightly painted modern cover by G.G. Scott

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view of font in context

Image Source: engraving in The Gentleman's Magazine (1856)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01733NOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: St Peter's Street, Marefair, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1SR

Country Name: England

Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, centre aisle, S side

Date: ca. 1320?

Century and Period: 14th century / 15th century (early?), Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.2365, -0.9034

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 14′ 11.4″ N, 0° 54′ 12.24″ W

UTM: 30U 643165 5789414

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-. Accessed: 2012-05-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Byrne, Matthew, Beautiful churches saved by The Churches Conservation Trust, London: Frances Lincoln, 2013

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

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

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973

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

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

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