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view of church exterior - south view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geoff Pick, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2011 by Geoff Pick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2552105] [accessed 16 May 2012]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01760POL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1300?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (late?), Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N aisle, just W of the N entranceway
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Hemington Road, Polebrook, Northamptonshire PE8 5LP
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located S of Ashton, W of Lutton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Polebrook
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 11thC church here?)
Font Notes:
Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 3, 1930) notes: "There was a priest on the King's fee in Polebrook in 1086 [...] Late in the 12th century the north aisle was added to the nave, and a transeptal chapel constructed on this side [...] The octagonal font is of the later part of the 13th century with trefoiled panels, circular pedestal, and shafts with moulded capitals and bases supporting the bowl." In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Octagonal, with flat pointed-trefoiled arches; c.1300." [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 11th-century church here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 674666 5816529

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