Raunds / Raines / Rande

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Results: 11 records

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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding - angular

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, October 2006

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BH01: animal - mammal - ram - head

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes, especially Romilly Allen]

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, October 2006

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LID01: human figure - head - multiple faces

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, October 2006

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view of basin - upper view - detail

Scene Description: supposedly a book rest? [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, October 2006

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, October 2006

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view of church interior - chancel - detail

Scene Description: mural painting over the chancel arch

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, October 2006

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, October 2006

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, October 2006

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, October 2006

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view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, October 2006

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view of font cover - finial

Image Source: digital photograph by Lis Audigier, October 2006

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01743RAU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: High Street, Raunds, Northamptonshire, NN9 6JB

Country Name: England

Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A45, NE of Rushden, 25 km NNW of Bedford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough

Historical Region: Hundred of Higham Ferrers

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the S aisle, just W of the S entranceway

Century and Period: 13th century, Early English

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Lis Audigier for the photographs of church and font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Parker (1849): "The Font, which stands at the west end of the south Aisle, is Early English, plain, round, with a ram's head projecting from one side. The cover is made out of an old one of the fourteenth century, wit a finial formed of four heads united." Romilly Allen (1884) notes: "On the font at Raunds, in Northamptonshire, is a ram's head, which may possibly be meant for the Agnus Dei." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907): "The 13th-cent. Font at Raunds, Northants, has a carved ram's head projecting from the rim, the top of which, when perfect, may possibly have served as a rest". The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 4, 1937) notes: "ascribed to the 12th century. In addition to the ram's head on the west side, there is a single triangular, or chevron ornament facing south-east." The VCH (ibid.) further notes that the short octagonal cover is either 14th-century, "Or made up from woodwork of this period." Mee (1945) notes: "The font is 700 years old and is remarkable for having what is supposed to be a bbokrest in the form of a carved ram's head." In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Circular, with one very realistic ram's headsticking out. Can this be C13?". The surface offered by the protruding ram head is very narrow and awkward, hardly enough to accommodate a small breviary; the other possibility is that the font had originally four such heads, at 90-degree angles, a common enough design in the 12th and 13th centuries [NB: there appears to be a change of pattern in the area of the stone where the corresponding heads might have been -- were they removed?]; there is an angular moulding on the lower rim of the basin; the plain and round pedestal stem is made up of multiple blocks; the lower base and the plinth are octagonal and plain. Octagonal pyramidal wooden cover with multiple-face finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.346499, -0.532972

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 20′ 47.39″ N, 0° 31′ 58.7″ W

UTM: 30U 668039 5802443

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 14th-century? / re-constructed?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-04-29 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Allen, J. Romilly, "Notes on Early Christian Symbolism", N.S., VI, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1884, pp. 380-464; r["References"]

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

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

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

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