Higham Ferrers No. 1 / Hecham / Hecham Fereres / Hecham Ferres / Hegham / Hegham Ferrars / Hegham Ferrers / Hehham / Heicham / Heigham / Heigham Ferres / Heikham / Hetham
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B01: symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese
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B02: design element - architectural - arch or niche
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view of font
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of St Mary the Virgin, Higham Ferrers, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in www.stmaryhighamferrers.org
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of St Mary the Virgin, Higham Ferrers, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in www.stmaryhighamferrers.org
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view of font
Scene Description: archival photograph showing the flat cover on the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of St Mary the Virgin, Higham Ferrers, 2006
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of St Mary the Virgin, Higham Ferrers, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in www.stmaryhighamferrers.org
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of St Mary the Virgin, Higham Ferrers, 2006
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view of church exterior - portal - tympanum
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view of church exterior - east end
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: archival photograph showing the flat cover on the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of St Mary the Virgin, Higham Ferrers, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph in www.stmaryhighamferrers.org
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © University of London & History of Parliament Trust, 2012
Image Source: engraving in the VCH entry [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66300] [accessed 25 May 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01758HIG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century / 15th century, Early English? / Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
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.)
Church Address: College Street, Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, NN10 8DL
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: altered font: is it a 15th-century re-carving of a 13th-century font? -- famous person font? (Henry Chicheley, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1414 to 1443, was born in Higham Ferrers and likely baptised in the font in use at the time)
Font Notes:
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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].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Rev. Fr. Grant Brockhouse, Vicar of Higham Ferrers, for the photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 664088 5797788
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.305883, -0.593185
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 18′ 21.18″ N, 0° 35′ 35.47″ W
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.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 24 October 2006]
- 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. 16-17
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 256
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 29, 83