Bugbrooke

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01770BUG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Church Ln, Bugbrooke, Northampton NN7 3RG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1604 830373
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the M1, 10 km WSW of Northampton
Font Notes:
Noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "an octagonal font highly enriched". In Parker (1849): "The font is octagonal, and of Perpendicular work." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Mee (1945): "15th century font with roses". In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular]".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 635696 5786188
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.2094, -1.014
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 12′ 33.84″ N, 1° 0′ 50.4″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 211
  • Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=50841] [accessed 22 January 2007]
  • 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 16 October 2006]
  • 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. 274
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 129