Nassington / Nassintone

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "The octagonal font with its two courses of “arches” is c14."

Image Source: digital photograph by Lionel Wall in Great English Churches [https://greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/nassington.html] [accessed 16 February 2025]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)

Copyright Instructions: PD

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches - double arcade (one-up-one-down)

Image Source: digital photograph by Lionel Wall in Great English Churches [https://greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/nassington.html] [accessed 16 February 2025]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's church, Nassington. Built between the [e]leventh and seventeenth centuries"

Image Source: digital photograph 16 April 2023 by Jonathan Thacker [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7462549] [accessed 16 February 2025]

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view of church interior - cross - shaft - detail

Source caption: "This lovely Scandinavian-style interlaced work is in stark contrast to the crudeness of the main crucifixion image."

Scene Description: Source caption: "This lovely Scandinavian-style interlaced work is in stark contrast to the crudeness of the main crucifixion image."

Image Source: digital photograph by Lionel Wall in Great English Churches [https://greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/nassington.html] [accessed 16 February 2025]

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view of church interior - cross - shaft - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "The right hand face has this nice interlaced design of Scandinavian pattern."

Image Source: digital photograph by Lionel Wall in Great English Churches [https://greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/nassington.html] [accessed 16 February 2025]

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view of church interior - cross - shaft - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "To the left of the main face is this vine design."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph by Lionel Wall in Great English Churches [https://greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/nassington.html] [accessed 16 February 2025]

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view of church interior - cross - shaft

Source caption: "The c10 Anglo-Saxon cross shaft. There is a crucifixion scene at the bottom. To the left and right of Christ’s head are the sun and moon. Below the arms are two soldiers armed with lances."

Scene Description: Source caption: "The c10 Anglo-Saxon cross shaft. There is a crucifixion scene at the bottom. To the left and right of Christ’s head are the sun and moon. Below the arms are two soldiers armed with lances."

Image Source: digital photograph by Lionel Wall in Great English Churches [https://greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/nassington.html] [accessed 16 February 2025]

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view of church interior - cross - shaft

Source caption: "Saxon cross shaft. Fragment of a 10th century cross depicting Christ on the cross with a spear and reed, the feet above would have continued with a respresentation of The Ascension. When complete, the cross has been estimated to have stood 10 feet high. It was discovered during restoration work in the 1880s."

Scene Description: Source caption: "Saxon cross shaft. Fragment of a 10th century cross depicting Christ on the cross with a spear and reed, the feet above would have continued with a respresentation of The Ascension. When complete, the cross has been estimated to have stood 10 feet high. It was discovered during restoration work in the 1880s."

Image Source: digital photograph 9 August 2011 by Richard Croft [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2573965] [accessed 16 February 2025]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nassington, St. Mary and All Saints' Church: Bell refurbishment by John Taylor of Peterborough"

Image Source: digital photograph 27 October 2016 by Michael Garlick [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5173066] [accessed 16 February 2025]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Source caption: "Looking towards the east end. Note the identical north and south aisle arches and their symmetry with the chancel arch. Right: The chancel. The west window is plain-as-pikestaff Perpendicular style. The tracery was restored in the c19. This part of the church is strangely overlooked by both the Church Guide and by Pevsner but it is clearly in the Perpendicular style throughout and, it has to be admitted, has little of interest."

Scene Description: Source caption: "Looking towards the east end. Note the identical north and south aisle arches and their symmetry with the chancel arch. Right: The chancel. The west window is plain-as-pikestaff Perpendicular style. The tracery was restored in the c19. This part of the church is strangely overlooked by both the Church Guide and by Pevsner but it is clearly in the Perpendicular style throughout and, it has to be admitted, has little of interest."

Image Source: digital photograph by Lionel Wall in Great English Churches [https://greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/nassington.html] [accessed 16 February 2025]

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view of font in context - east side

Source caption: "The tower arch is late Norman, dating from the time when the original Anglo-Saxon rubble wall was faced with dressed stone."

Scene Description: Source caption: "The tower arch is late Norman, dating from the time when the original Anglo-Saxon rubble wall was faced with dressed stone."

Image Source: digital photograph by Lionel Wall in Great English Churches [https://greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/nassington.html] [accessed 16 February 2025]

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view of church interior - looking west

Source caption: "Looking towards the west end. It is the small triangular-headed block doorway high on the west wall that gives the vital clue to the provenance of this church: it is clearly Anglo-Saxon. This tells you that that the nave walls, now cut by arcades, were the original Anglo-Saxon church. It is hard not to wonder whether the clerestory was “built” at all. Were the windows simply cut into the original Anglo-Saxon walls? In any event, look at the level of that Anglo-Saxon doorway and imagine then the sheer height of that church compared to its original aisle-less breadth!"

Scene Description: Source caption: "Looking towards the west end. It is the small triangular-headed block doorway high on the west wall that gives the vital clue to the provenance of this church: it is clearly Anglo-Saxon. This tells you that that the nave walls, now cut by arcades, were the original Anglo-Saxon church. It is hard not to wonder whether the clerestory was “built” at all. Were the windows simply cut into the original Anglo-Saxon walls? In any event, look at the level of that Anglo-Saxon doorway and imagine then the sheer height of that church compared to its original aisle-less breadth!"

Image Source: digital photograph by Lionel Wall in Great English Churches [https://greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/nassington.html] [accessed 16 February 2025]

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design element - motifs - leaf

Source caption: "The font rests on an octagonal pedestal with a curiously artless motif. It’s an apology for a design really and I can’t help wondering if it was some bodge-up from more recent times" -- large, oak?, on several sides of the stem of the base

Scene Description: Source caption: "The font rests on an octagonal pedestal with a curiously artless motif. It’s an apology for a design really and I can’t help wondering if it was some bodge-up from more recent times" -- large, oak?, on several sides of the stem of the base

Image Source: digital photograph by Lionel Wall in Great English Churches [https://greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/nassington.html] [accessed 16 February 2025]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: B&W photograph in Mee (1945)

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01763NAS

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Early English? / Decorated?

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin and All Saints

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & All Saints

Church Notes: likely pre-Conquest church here, evidenced by the Domesday entry and the Aglo-Saxon cross shaft inside the church

Church Address: Nassington, Peterborough PE8 6QG, United Kingdom

Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B671, 15 km WSW of Peterborough

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough

Historical Region: Hundred of Willybrook [in Domesday]

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the likely Domesday-time church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for Nassington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TL0696/nassington/] [accessed 16 February 2025]; it reports a priest in it. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a marble baptismal font of the thirteenth century. Cox-Harvey (1907) have it as being of the Decorated period. described in Mee (1945): "13th century font with ivy leaves on the stem, rosettes on the base, and the staples with which it was locked [...]" In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Octagonal, early C14, with two tiers of small, flat arch-heads." Raised on an octagonal pedestal with a large leaf motif incised in each side.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Lionel Wall, of Great English Churches, for his photographs of this church and font

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 674018 5825643

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.553, -0.433189

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 33′ 10.8″ N, 0° 25′ 59.48″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with some carvings on the upper surface, metal decorations and ring handle

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 206, 211and ill. on p. 208
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 26 October 2006]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 309