Laxton No. 1
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B01: design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01759LAX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [basin only] -- 15th 16th century[base only], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Corby NN17 3AX, United Kingdom
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A43, ESE of Harringworth
Additional Comments: recycled font / composite font : base is 15th-16th century
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated with an engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812) as a baptismal font of the Norman period [NB: Repton uses English monarchy chronology and gives the time period between the Conquest and the reign of Henry II], although "the lower parts [...] were added about the fifteenth or sixteenth century." Paley (1844) describes as a Norman font in which "the under side of the bowl is bevilled away or rounded off to meet the stem [...] and this hemispherical form is extremely common in Norman fonts as at Cuxwold, Lincolnshire; Clipsham, Rutland; Heydon, Norfolk; Laxton, Northamptonshire; Plymstock, Devonshire." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a font of the Early English period. The font appears all round, the cylindrical basin with a rounded underbowl; the sides of the basin are decorated with long-stemmed iris or fleur-de-lis motifs; round pedestal base with two mouldings. The CRSBI (2008)notes that "The S[outh] nave doorway, under a porch […] contains reused 12thc. material", but does not recognise a Romanesque font in this church.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 662707 5825365
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.554, -0.6
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 33′ 14.4″ N, 0° 36′ 0″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
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
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 19
- Repton, John Adey, "Specimens of Fonts, collected from different Churches, by John Adey Repton, Esq. F.A.S. In a Letter addressed to Craven Ord, Esq. F.R.S. and F.A.S.V.P., read 12th March, 1807", XVI, Archaeologia, 1812, pp. 335-337 and pl. XXXVII-XLV; p. 335-336 and pl. XXXVIII fig. 1