Preston Capes / Little Preston / Prestetone
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian Rob, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2008 by Ian Rob [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/959316] [accessed 18 July 2014]
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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Wilkinson, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Philip Wilkinson; in http://englishbuildings.blogspot.ca/2014/04/preston-capes-northamptonshire.html [accessed 18 July 2014]
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design element - motifs - floral - varied
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Wilkinson, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Philip Wilkinson; in http://englishbuildings.blogspot.ca/2014/04/preston-capes-northamptonshire.html [accessed 18 July 2014]
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design element - architectural - window or niche - trefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Wilkinson, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Philip Wilkinson; in http://englishbuildings.blogspot.ca/2014/04/preston-capes-northamptonshire.html [accessed 18 July 2014]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Wilkinson, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Philip Wilkinson; in http://englishbuildings.blogspot.ca/2014/04/preston-capes-northamptonshire.html [accessed 18 July 2014]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION [requested] NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01778PRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Notes: church earliest remains 12thC; restored in 1853 -- there may have been another font at the late-11thC priory church here, but the priory was transferred to Daventry in 1107-1108
Church Address: 1 Church Way, Preston Capes, Northamptonshire, NN11 3TE
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Newnham, 8 km S of Daventry
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Gravesend [Fawsley?]
Additional Comments: emailed Philip Wilkinson [http://englishbuildings.blogspot.ca/2014/04/preston-capes-northamptonshire.html] 18/7/2014 for permission to repro -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here; also, perhaps one from the priory church of ca.1090?)
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for this Preston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP5754/preston-capes/] [accessed 18 July 2014], but neither mentions a church or cleric in it. Whellan (1849) mentions the Church of St. Peter here noting the it is "principally in the Perpendicular style of architecture", restored in 1853. A font here is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example of 15th century font. Described in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Font. With panels illustrating window tracery as if taken from a pattern book." The Knightley Parishes web site [www.theknightleyparishes.co.uk/] [accessed 10 January 2007] notes: "The fifteenth century stone font is built into a pillar in the south aisle and has traceried panels." There are varied floral motifs on the underbowl chamfer; the stem of the base has trefpoiled window tracery with a roll moulding below; the wooden cover is pyramidal and appears old. [NB: we have no information on the possible font from the priory of Cluniac monks founded here ca.1090 by Hugh of Leicester].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 625717 5783684
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.189268, -1.160893
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 11′ 21.36″ N, 1° 09′ 39.21″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 211
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 378
- Whellan, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Northamptonshire, comprising a general survey of the county, and a history of the Diocese of Peterborough: with separate [...], London: Whittaker & Co., Ave Maria Lane, 1849, p. 429