Tansor / Tansoure

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01769TAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-carved or replaced in the 14th century?] / 14th century, Norman [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17557810
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Tansor, Peterborough PE8 5HN, United Kingdom
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3-4 km NNE of Oundle
Additional Comments: altered font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Described in the Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 2, 1906): "The font has a bowl square below and octagonal above, carried on four octagonal angle-shafts, and one in the centre. Three of the shafts have foliage capitals, and originally the whole was of the 12th century, but the bowl has been altered, if not renewed, in the 14th century, and one of the shafts has been replaced by a piece of a circular shaft, without a capital. On the base of the bowl are large ballflowers." Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Plain octagonal bowl with, in the diagonals, four monstrously big ballflowers. Early C14".

COORDINATES

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.5063, -0.449
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 30′ 23″ N, 0° 26′ 56″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal-to-square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal, re-cut from square

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
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 424