Bugbrooke

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B01: design element - motifs - floral - rose

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 01770BUG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Church Ln, Bugbrooke, Northampton NN7 3RG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1604 830373
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the M1, 10 km WSW of Northampton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
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

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

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
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
Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973