Glapthorn

Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014

Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

Results: 12 records

design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

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Image Source: detail of a photographed 26 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow

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design element - motifs - floral - varied - 8

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design element - motifs - foliage? - 8

Scene Description: a leaf (?) on eah of the sides of the lower base

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: the repaired area with new stone insert can be seen in the centre of the upper rim; notice also the crack through the two panels below

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8

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design element - motifs - spur - 4

Scene Description: one at each angle of the bottom volume of the lower base

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Stafford, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 February 2007 by Chris Stafford [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/346440] [accessed 8 November 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking northeast

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Stafford, 2007

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

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view of font cover

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01774GLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard [form. Chapel-of-ease]
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Church Location: Glapthorn, Northamptonshire PE8 5BE
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 3 km NW of Oundle, 22 km from Stamford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of S aisle
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this font
Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Dated in Mee (1945) to the 14th century. In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with panelled stem and quatrefoiled bowl.-- Font cover with a re-used Perp[endicular] finial." The Inventory of Historical Monuments... (Northamptonshire, vol. 6, 1984: 75-79) notes: "Glapthorn [...] until the present century was a chapelry of Cotterstock. [...] There is evidence of a mid 12th-century church [...] Font: octagonal, bowl with sunk quatrefoils, stem with cusped recesses, leaf and flower forms on splayed base and under bowl, 15th-century. Font-cover: modern with 15th-century poppy head finial"; the entry illustrates the location of the font at the west end of the south aisle. English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL0242290202] (1967) notes: "Church. C12 origins. C13, C14 and C16 restored by J.C. Traylen 1895. [...] Perpendicular octagonal font with panelled stem and quatrefoil bawl." [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 12th-century church here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.500087, -0.492066
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 30′ 0.31″ N, 0° 29′ 31.44″ W
UTM: 30U 670232 5819618

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: composite [the finial may be 15th-century]
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973