Brington

INFORMATION

Font ID: 05153BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17543960
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 16-18 kms W of Huntingdon on the A14 (dir. Kettering)
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire
Font Notes:
Described in Paley (1844) and in Bond (1908) simply as an oval font. Mee (1945) writes: "The font is probably very early Norman, its base contemporary with the church" [NB: the context is somewhat ambiguous in Mee, but it probably means that the base is 15th-century] Pevsner (1968) mentions only a "Font cover. Jacobean. Simple, conical, with a ball finial."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: oval
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: oval

LID INFORMATION

Date: Jacobean / 17th - 18th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 58
  • 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 15 October 2006]
  • Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 22
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 213