Spratton / Spretone / Sprocton / Sprotton

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of font - plan and elevation

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01751SPR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Brixworth Road, Spratton, Northamptonshire, NN6 8HH
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A5199, 11 km NNW of Northampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Spelhoe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Parker (1849) describes the earliest parts of this church as "semi-Norman", and adds: "The font is of the same early character". In Whellan (1849), after Parker. Illustrated in a 1 June 1871 printed drawing by Thomas Garratt, now in the Sir Henry Dryden Collection, Northamptonshire. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a good example of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 4, 1937) notes: "The earliest church was erected about 1120 [...] The 13th-century font has an octagonal bowl with round-headed trefoil arcading on a plain pedestal and chamfered plinth." In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Octagonal, C13. Plain, with three blank trefoiled arches."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 639649 5798974

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-04-30 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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