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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph in the CRSBI (2008)
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B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity
Scene Description: south side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph in the CRSBI (2008)
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B03: New Testament - Public life of Christ - baptism of Christ
Scene Description: west side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph in the CRSBI (2008)
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B04: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Adam and Eve
Scene Description: north side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph in the CRSBI (2008)
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Katie, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 January 2005 by Katie [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/66853] [accessed 22 May 2012]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phil Draper, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Phil Draper [www.finedon.utvinternet.com/images/ChurchPictures/Finedon17.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2009]
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view of font - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph in the CRSBI (2008)
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view of church interior - plan
Scene Description: note the position of the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © NMR, [2004?]
Image Source: digital reproduction of an NMR drawing in the CRSBI (2008)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01741FIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only] [re-cut], Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S aisle [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Hill, Finedon, Northamptonshire NN9 5NR
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km NNE of Wellingborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Huxloe
Additional Comments: altered font / composite font / damaged font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Reported in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "the font is a large cubical mass of stone, with the angles sloped off, so as to make the uppr face octagonal." Parker (1849) writes: "The ancient Norman stone font is worthy to replace the more modern one of composition." Noted also in Wilson's Gazetteer of 1870-1872. The Antiquary [issue of August 1884: 79] reports on an excursion of the Northampton Natural Histroy Society on 19 June 1884, with a visit to Finedon: "In the church is square side Norman font with figures on each of the sides." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a good example of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 3, 1930) notes: "Of the original 12th-century building nothing remains except the font, the church having been entirely rebuilt at the beginning of the 14th century". Mee (1945) writes: "The oldest possession of the church is the Norman bowl of the font, which lay neglected in a field for years but has worn carvings on four sides with recognisable features of an Annunciation scene, a winged angel and the Madonna with a lily." In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "C12, re-worked in the C15(?), octagonal. On one side of the bowl a group of the Annunciation." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008), which informs that the basin of this font [the base is 19th-century] "was discovered in use as a cattle trough in 1849", has been re-cut twice, and that "some blue polychromy is visible on the E face". The CRSBI identifies the scenes on the four sides of the basin: 1)E face: the Annunciation; 2)S face: perhaps the Nativity, "but it could be a miracle scene"; 3)W face: "A Baptism, presumably Christ's"; 4)N face: perhaps the Fall of Man. The state of the font is deplorable and much of the carving is is difficult to discern.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 659244 5801171
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.337698, -0.662576
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 20′ 15.71″ N, 0° 39′ 45.28″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square, chamfered angles
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square (chamfered angles)
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (inside rim): 59-61 cm*
Basin Total Height: 43.5 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 71 x 73 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements a/p The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/nh/fined/index.htm] [accessed 5 February 2007]]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood and metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain wooden octagonal platform; on it four thin metal scrolls supporting a floried cross
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- 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
- 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=50963] [accessed 5 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.htm] [accessed 18 October 2006]
- Parker, John Henry, Architectural notices of the churches of the Archdeaconry of Northampton: Deaneries of Higham Ferrers and Haddon, London; Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1849, p. 139
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 217
- Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872