Corby nr. Peterborough / Corbei
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view of church exterior - tower
Scene Description: the 14thC tower
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 13 September 2018 by Roger Templeman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5923695] [accessed 19 May 2019]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of Saint John the Baptist, 'Old' Corby. Centre of the village of Corby until the 1930s, when it became a steel boom-town".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Heaton, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 January 2007 by Tim Heaton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/323629] [accessed 19 May 2019]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2019
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Ron Baxter in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/924/] [accessed 19 May 2019]
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design element - architectural - arch-head - pointed - diaper - 6
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2019
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Ron Baxter in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/924/] [accessed 19 May 2019]
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design element - architectural - column - 6
Scene Description: the six detached columns are plain, without capitals or bases
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2019
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Ron Baxter in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/924/] [accessed 19 May 2019]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01754COR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Epiphany with St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, W of the S entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): The Epiphany w/ St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Church Walk, Corby NN17 1XF, UK -- Tel.: +44 1536 402106
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just off (NW) the A427-A6086 crossroads, 30-35 kms WSW of Peterborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Corby
Font Notes:
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The is an entry for this Corby [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP8988/corby/] [accessed 19 May 2019]; it mentions a priest, but not a church, in it, toughthere must have been one there. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Early English period here. The font is noted in Mee (1945) simply as medieval. In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Circular, with six low dog-tooth arches at the bottom of the bowl; C13." The font here is described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2019) entry for this church: "The font is recorded here, although it is almost certainly 13thc. [...] In S aisle to W of S doorway. The bowl is cylindrical with six pointed arches around the lower part, each decorated with a row of dogtooth. It stands on a cylindrical stem with a chamfered base from which rise six en-delit shafts, positioned at the springing of the arches but without capitals. The ensemble stands on a broad, low modern step. The bowl is lined with lead. [...] Fonts decorated with dogtooth are also found in the county at Magdalen College Brackley and at Hinton-in-the-Hedges, but both of these are more elaborately decorated with foliage as well as dogtooth." The entry for this church in Histori England [Listing NGR: SP8983788772] notes: "Church. Late C12, early C13, C14, datestone 1625, restored 1900. [...] Late C12 circular font with dogtooth arcading."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 657616 5818048
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.48977, -0.6785
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 29′ 23.17″ N, 0° 40′ 42.6″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 13 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 54 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 99 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2019)
REFERENCES
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 211
- Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945, [http://northamptoncastle.homeip.net/northampton/books/Arthur%20Mee.htm] [accessed 18 October 2006]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 155