Glapthorn
Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: photographed 26 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
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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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Image Source: detail of a photographed 26 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8
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Image Source: detail of a photographed 26 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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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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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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: photographed 26 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of church interior - nave - looking northeast
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Stafford, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 February 2007 by Chris Stafford [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/346426] [accessed 8 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font cover
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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photographed 26 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photographed 26 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
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design element - motifs - foliage? - 8
Scene Description: a leaf (?) on eah of the sides of the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photographed 26 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - motifs - spur - 4
Scene Description: one at each angle of the bottom volume of the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2014
Image Source: detail of a photographed 26 March 2012 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01774GLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard [form. Chapel-of-ease]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Church Address: Glapthorn, Northamptonshire PE8 5BE
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km NW of Oundle, 22 km from Stamford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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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]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 670232 5819618
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.500087, -0.492066
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 30′ 0.31″ N, 0° 29′ 31.44″ W
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, p. 211
- 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 19 October 2006]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 225