Middleton Cheney
INFORMATION
FontID: 01777MID
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: 12 Church Ln, Middleton Cheney, Banbury OX17 2NR, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1733 887040
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B4525, N of the A422, between Banbury and Brackley
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Noted in Mee (1945): "15th century font". In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Plain, Perp[endicular], octagonal."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.0744,
-1.274
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 4′ 27.84″ N,
1° 16′ 26.4″ W
UTM: 30U 618290 5770719
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
Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973