Great Addington / Adington Major / Borealis Adintona / Edintone / Haderingtona / Nordadington / North Addington

Described and illustrated in Parker (1849): "The Font, which stands against the pillar within the south door, is Early English, with shafts attached to a round stem, and the basin ornamented with heads and corbels in a singular and unusual manner." Described, with a woodcut by Orlando Jewitt, in The Church Builder (issue no. 47 January 1873: 19): "the bowl is supported on a pillar with four attached shafts (a very common arrangement of Early 13th Century pillars, and a moulded capital. The bowl itseld is the frustrum of a cone. The heads, which are ingeniously carved on the four attached shafts. form four brackets, which very possibly were intended to support the cruets for the chrism used in medieaeval baptism." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a good example of the Early English period. Described in the Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 3, 1930): "The church is referred to in a doubtful charter of 833 to Croyland Abbey [...] Of the 12th-century aisleless church there are traces in the large plinths beneath the piers of the nave [...] the nave was begun in the later part of the 13th century [...] The font is of the 13th century, with a circular bowl upon a circular stem furnished with four attached shafts, the capitals of which are joined to the bowl by grotesque head-shaped projections." Described in Mee (1945): "the font is 13th century, with comic heads round its bowl."