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B01: symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 19 July 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/826473] [accessed 25 August 2012]

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B02: design element - architectural - arch or niche

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 19 July 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/826473] [accessed 25 August 2012]

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view of church exterior - east end

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view of church exterior - portal - tympanum

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font

Scene Description: archival photograph showing the flat cover on the font

Image Source: digital photograph in www.stmaryhighamferrers.org

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view of font

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in www.stmaryhighamferrers.org

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

Image Source: engraving in the VCH entry [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66300] [accessed 25 May 2012]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: archival photograph showing the flat cover on the font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01758HIG

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: College Street, Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, NN10 8DL

Country Name: England

Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located in the junction of the A45-A6, N of Rushden, 25-30 km EEN of Northampton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough

Historical Region: Borough of Higham Ferrers

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N aisle

Century and Period: 13th century / 15th century, Early English? / Perpendicular?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Rev. Fr. Grant Brockhouse, Vicar of Higham Ferrers, for the photographs of this font.

Church Notes: see www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/4968384357/in/photostream/ for a good photo essay on the elements of this church by Walwyn (BSI contrib.)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Penny Magazine [transcribed in www.oldtowns.co.uk/Northamptonshire/highamferrers.htm] reported ca. 1839 the presence of "an ancient font" in this collegiate church. Illustrated in a June 1840 drawing by Henry E.L. Dryden, now in the Sir Henry Dryden Collection, Northamptonshire NB: noted "from W.C. Lukis"]. Described and illustrated in Parker (1849) as Early English. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as an octagonal mounted baptismal font of the Norman period, or, at least, with Norman-like ornamentation, including crosses. The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 3, 1930) notes: "It may be assumed that there was a church here in 1086, when there was a priest in the manor of William Peverel. [...] No part of the church is earlier than the 13th century, but a considerable portion of the building erected in that period still remains, though altered in the following century and later. [...] The 15thcentury font has an octagonal bowl with carving on the four major faces, on attached shafts with moulded bases, and chamfered plinth." In Mee (1945): "The font is 15th century." In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Octagonal, C13. On one side a cross with stiff-leaf, on three others short gables with fleurs-de-lis etc., also nailhead." The Parish' own web site [www.stmaryhighamferrers.org] notes: "Founded in the 13th century, at the time when Higham Ferrers was given a Charter by King Henry III, the Church still retains its original font". The font consists of an octagonal basin some of the sides of which are decorated with large Maltese crosses, one side with a niche-like motif; raised on a central shaft clustered with four outer colonnettes, an octagonal lower base, and a two-step plinth: the upper step octagonal, the lower step square. The tall pyramidal font cover appears to consist of an internal structure [wood?] and a very stylised [cloth?] lining on it [NB: a second cover, octagonal and flat appears on the font in the archival photographs shown]. [cf. Index entry for Higham Ferrers No. 2 for a holy water stoup listed for this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.305883, -0.593185

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 18′ 21.18″ N, 0° 35′ 35.47″ W

UTM: 30U 664088 5797788

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: yes

Notes: [cf. FontNotes and Images area]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-05-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945

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

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928