Tansor / Tansoure

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BU01: design element - motifs - floral - ball flower

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 01769TAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Tansor, Peterborough PE8 5HN, United Kingdom
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 3-4 km NNE of Oundle
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [re-carved or replaced in the 14th century?] / 14th century, Norman [altered?]
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was of the 12th century, but the bowl has been altered, if not renewed, in the 14th century, and one of the shafts has been replaced by a piece of a circular shaft, without a capital.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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.5063, -0.449
Church 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-to-square

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-05-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973