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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - assorted motifs
Scene Description: on the sides of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: illustration by Orlando Jewitt in Rickman & Parker (1881: 225)
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B02: design element - motifs - hexafoil
Scene Description: on some of the sides of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: illustration by Orlando Jewitt in Rickman & Parker (1881: 225)
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: illustration by Orlando Jewitt in Rickman & Parker (1881: 225)
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Trolove, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2012 by Michael Trolove [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2883425] [accessed 21 May 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01734COT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1350?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (mid), Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Church Lane, Cotterstock, Northamptonshire PE8 5HH
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 20 kms WSW of Peterborough
Additional Comments: altered base? so is suggested in The Church Builder (issue no. 47 July 1873: 88)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of the Decorated period noted and illustrated in The Church Builder (issue no. 47 July 1873: 88) and in Rickman & Parker (1881), with a woodcut by Orlando Jewitt, and dated ca. 1350; it has an octagonal basin with its sides covered in quatrefoil, hexafoil and octafoil motifs arranged in varied ways. The pedestal stem of the base has a Gothic arch on each side and the plain lower base widens out slightly to the gorund. Dated to ca. 1350 as well in Cox (1907). Noted in Mee (1945): "The font is about 600 years old, with a thin spray of foliage round its base. In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with panelled stem and elaborately cusped quatrefoils etc. against the bowl".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 672070 5819840
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- 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 18 October 2006]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 161
- 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