Rushden / Risdene / Risscheden / Rissendene / Rysshedene
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B01: design element - motifs - foliage - stiff-leaf
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: engraving of a drawing by Orlando Jewitt in The Church Builder (issue no. 47 July 1873: 87-88)
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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Image Source: engraving of a drawing by Orlando Jewitt in The Church Builder (issue no. 47 July 1873: 87-88)
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UB01: design element - motifs - tracery - varied
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving of a drawing by Orlando Jewitt in The Church Builder (issue no. 47 July 1873: 87-88)
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving of a drawing by Orlando Jewitt in The Church Builder (issue no. 47 July 1873: 87-88)
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Mitchell, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 November 2005 by Colin Mitchell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/76719] [accessed 21 May 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01765RUS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] -- 14th century [stem only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter [aka St. Mary and St. Peter]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin / St. Mary the Virgin & St. Peter
Church Address: Midland Road/Station Road, Rushden, Northamptonshire, NN10 9UJ
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A6, S of Higham Ferrers, 32 km ENE of Northampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Higham Ferrers
Additional Comments: composite font?
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated with in Parker (1849), as a handsome font that "exhibits a mixture of Early English and Decorated details." Ditto in The Church Builder (issue no. 47 July 1873: 87-88), with an engraving of a drawing by Orlando Jewitt. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907). The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 4, 1937) notes: "The late 13th-century font has an octagonal bowl, the sides of which are carved with bold leaf-work, and the shaft has traceried ornament of various patterns." The church interior plan in the VCH shows the font at the west end of the nave, by the tower arch, but the location of the font is given in Davies (1962) in the north west corner of the nave [Davies cites the 'Architectural Notes of the Churches of the Archdeaconry of Northampton' (1849: 185) as source]. In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Octagonal. The bowl C13 (big stiff-leaf groups), the stem C14 (various tracery motifs)." The Historic Churches Preservation Trust notes a "Decorated font" in this church [source: 'Recent Grants' issue of the Grants Cttee. 13 September 2005, www.historicchurches.org.uk]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 663798 5795923
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.289212, -0.598351
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 17′ 21.16″ N, 0° 35′ 54.07″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
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
- Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962, p. 63, fig. II-d and fn3
- 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. 186
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 395