Spratton / Spretone / Sprocton / Sprotton
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches
Scene Description: the one on the right of the print
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Northamptonshire Libraries and Information Service, 2012
Image Source: "Drawing [1 June 1871, by Thomas Garrat] of plan and cross section of the font at Spratton church" in The Sir Henry Dryden Collection [ref.: DR/25/242/002], Northamptonshire Central Library [www.vads.ac.uk/images/HDC/large/DR_25_242_002.jpg] [accessed 29 May 2012]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kokai, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2006 by Kokai [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/230408] [accessed 1 June 2012]
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view of font - plan and elevation
Scene Description: the one on the right of the print
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Northamptonshire Libraries and Information Service, 2012
Image Source: "Drawing [1 June 1871, by Thomas Garrat] of plan and cross section of the font at Spratton church" in The Sir Henry Dryden Collection [ref.: DR/25/242/002], Northamptonshire Central Library [www.vads.ac.uk/images/HDC/large/DR_25_242_002.jpg] [accessed 29 May 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01751SPR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Brixworth Road, Spratton, Northamptonshire, NN6 8HH
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A5199, 11 km NNW of Northampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Spelhoe
Additional Comments: Disappeared font? (the one from the ca. 1120 church here?)
Font Notes:
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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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 211
- 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. 244
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 406
- 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, p. 219