Blisworth / Bledesworth / Bleseworth / Blidesworde / Bliseworthe / Blithesworth / Blysworth
Image copyright © Tony Marsh, 2009
Image and permssion to reproduce received (e-mail of 11 April 2009)
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view of basin - interior
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Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2009 by Tony Marsh
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2009 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1343739] [accessed 31 May 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tony Marsh, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2009 by Tony Marsh
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken April 2009 by Tony Marsh
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view of font in context
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Image Source: digital photograph taken April 2009 by Tony Marsh
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01746BLI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: High Street, Blisworth, Northamptonshire NN7 3BJ
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6 km N of Towcester, 10 km S of Northampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundre of Wymersley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, "against the west side of the north-west pillar of the nave" [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Tony Marsh, of Blisworth Parish, for his photographs of this font
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a good example of the Norman period. Described in the Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 4, 1937): "The right of presentation to the church was granted to William Briwerre by the Earl of Derby, and confirmed by King John in 1199. [...] The font is ancient and consists of a plain circular bucket-shaped bowl […] on a cylindrical pedestal and base, and octagonal step." [footnoted: "The base or pedestal is equal in diameter to the bottom of the bowl and is 14½ in. high over all, on a 3 in. step. The font stands against the west side of the north-west pillar of the nave. One of the staples remains. The cover is modern."] [NB: a local source informed BSI in April 2009 that the font is no longer in use; a Victorian china bowl is used for baptisms instead]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 641066 5782509
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Height of Central Column: 36.25 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in the VCH -- cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round; modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-05-31 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907