Kislingbury

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01775KIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1450?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Luke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Luke
Church Address: Church Ln, Kislingbury, Northampton NN7 4AD, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1604 830373
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SW of Northampton
Font Notes:
Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a fine octagonal font" in this church. In Parker (1849): "Font circa 1450, octagonal, with quatrefoil on each side, shaft panelled." Dated in Cox & Harvey (1907) to the Perpendicular period. Noted in Mee (1945): "The font [...] has flowers in quatrefoil panels and on the cornice between the bowl and the shaft, all 14th century." Pevsner & Cherry (1973) give St. Peter and St. Paul as the dedication of the church, and descibe the font: "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with shields in quatrefoils. Panelled stem."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 637894 5788463
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.2293, -0.98093
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 13′ 45.48″ N, 0° 58′ 51.35″ 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=51084] [accessed 14 February 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 25 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. 277
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 284