Wadenhoe / Waddenhoo / Wadenho / Wadenhowe
Image copyright © Maddy Alvis-Evans, 2007
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Results: 12 records
B01: human figure - head
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2007 by Maddy Alvis-Evans[http://maddy.aldis-evans.info/Northampton%20pages/Northampton%202.htm] [accessed 13 April 2009]
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B02: design element - motifs - diaper
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B03: design element - motifs - floral - flower
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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
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BBU01: design element - architectural - arcade - round arch-heads
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BBU02: design element - motifs - tendril
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2007 by Maddy Alvis-Evans[http://maddy.aldis-evans.info/Northampton%20pages/Northampton%202.htm] [accessed 13 April 2009]
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view of basin
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2007 by Maddy Alvis-Evans[http://maddy.aldis-evans.info/Northampton%20pages/Northampton%202.htm] [accessed 13 April 2009]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stephen McKay, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 May 2008 Stephen McKay [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/796097] [accessed 17 May 2012]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian Patterson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2009 by Ian Paterson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1218708] [accessed 17 May 2012]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © University of London & History of Parliament Trust, 2009
Image Source: drawing [VCH source unknown] [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66276] [29 March 2009]
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view of font - north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ron Baxter & CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: digital image in CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-waden.html] [accessed 17 May 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01761WAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels [aka St. Michael's / St. Giles']
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels [alternatively dedicated to St. Giles?]
Church Address: Wadenhoe, Northamptonshire PE8 5ST
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A605, 8 km SSW of Oundle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Navisford
Additional Comments: altered font: only the basin is 13thC -- disappeared font? (the one from the original church here?)
Font Notes:
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Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Described and illustrated in the Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 3, 1930): "The tower is all that is left of a late 12th century church (c. 1195–1200), the chancel and nave of which were rebuilt some time in the next century. [...] The beautiful 13th century font consists of a circular bowl moulded round the lower edge and ornamented at the top with lunettes of foliage, below each joint of which are rosettes, dogtooth and masks in relief set vertically on the face of the cylinder. The font has been reset on an octagonal stone step." [NB: the VCH entry gives the dedication of the church as St. Giles']. In Pevsner & Cherry (1973) with 13th-century date. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "the font, certainly 13thc. Since it is carved with dogtooth and floral motifs [...] The sparse disposition of motifs on the bowl and their depth of relief indicate a prodigious volume in wasted stone." The font consists of a cylindrical basin decorated with a set of round arch heads around the upper side, vegetal tendrils under each arch [at least one badly damaged]; instead of supports, under each arch-end are two motifs, up-and-down: pairs of dog-tooth and rosettes; the exception has a human head at the top with a dog-tooth below; around the lower basin side, two parellel mouldings; the base is made up of four (?) polygonal shafts decorated with mouldings [at least one is a replacement; perhaps all four, but of different periods]. [NB: there may have been an Anglo-Saxon church here originally but we have no information of a fant in it]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Maddy Alvis-Evans [http://maddy.aldis-evans.info] for her photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 668707 5812705
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.438469, -0.518003
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 26′ 18.49″ N, 0° 31′ 4.81″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat octagonal base on which a polygonal [decagonal? / dodecagonal?] pyramid
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- 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
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 439