Kislingbury
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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 8
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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B02: symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
BU01: design element - motifs - floral - flower
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
INFORMATION
FontID: 01775KIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Luke
Church Patron Saints: St. Luke
Church Location: Church Ln, Kislingbury, Northampton NN7 4AD, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1604 830373
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SW of Northampton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1450?
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
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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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.2293, -0.98093
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 13′ 45.48″ N, 0° 58′ 51.35″ W
UTM: 30U 637894 5788463
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