Thornby

Results: 3 records

B01: symbol - cross - saltire

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B02: design element - patterns - interlace

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B03: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: re-cut, according to Pevsner & Cherry (1973)

INFORMATION

FontID: 01744THO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Helen
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A5199, 6 km S of Welford, 17 km NNW of Northampton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [re-cut?], Norman [altered?]
Described and illustrated in Parker (1849): "The font has Norman bowl, of some merit: the rest is of later date." In Whellan (1849), after Parker (1849). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example of the Norman period. In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Circular, Norman, with saltire crosses, interlace and (re-cut) leaves." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP6696275636] reports: "Church. C13, C14 and C19. North aisle added and chancel restored by E.F. Law 1870 [...] Font, C12, circular with saltire crosses and leaves; probably recut."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.374643, -1.017802
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 22' 28.7" N, 1° 1' 4.1" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

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