Great Brington
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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.csbi.ac.uk/ed/nh/gbrin/index.htm] [accessed 15 October 2006]
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BS01: symbol - cross - Greek - in a circle
Scene Description: on the left spandrel of the image
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Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.csbi.ac.uk/ed/nh/gbrin/index.htm] [accessed 15 October 2006]
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BS02: symbol - cross - Greek - in a circle
Scene Description: in the centre spandrel of the image
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Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.csbi.ac.uk/ed/nh/gbrin/index.htm] [accessed 15 October 2006]
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BS03: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle
Scene Description: in the right panel
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Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.csbi.ac.uk/ed/nh/gbrin/index.htm] [accessed 15 October 2006]
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BS04: symbol - cross - Greek
Scene Description: in the centre spandrel of the image
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Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.csbi.ac.uk/ed/nh/gbrin/index.htm] [accessed 15 October 2006]
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BS05: coat of arms
Scene Description: in the centre spandrel of the image
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Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.csbi.ac.uk/ed/nh/gbrin/index.htm] [accessed 15 October 2006]
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BS06: symbol - cross - Greek - in a circle
Scene Description: in the right panel
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BS07: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle
Scene Description: in the centre spandrel of the image
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BS08: symbol - unidentified
Scene Description: to the right of the 6-petal flower seen here in the centre spandrel: it appears 3-petalled, on a stalk, perhaps like some of the other stocks not totally eroded seen on the sides
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BS09: design element - motifs - unidentified
Scene Description: between some of the motifs identified in the spandrels, there appear a few stalk-like, some badly eroded or damaged
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LB01: design element - motifs - nail-head
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LB02: design element - motifs - diaper
Scene Description: four vertical indented rows
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view of church interior - plan
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Crown copyright. NMR, 1986
Image Source: digital photograph of an NMR 1986 church plan in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.csbi.ac.uk/ed/nh/gbrin/index.htm] [accessed 15 October 2006]
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view of font - east side
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view of font in context
Scene Description: church interior: nave, looking east; the upper part of the font visible in the foreground
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05287BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary with St. John
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. John
Church Location: Main St, Great Brington, Northampton NN7 4JB, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1604 771338
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located about 5 km WNW of Northampton, near Althorp Hall
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Transitional / Early English
Font Notes:
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Parker (1849) dates the font and other parts of this church "early in the last quarter of the thirteenth century". Described in Bond (1908) as a 13th-century baptismal font with a round basin ornamented with trefoil, nail-head and tooth motifs. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Circular, of Purbeck marble, with flat, blank pointed arches and in the spandrels crosses and flowers. Stone base with dog-tooth. C13". Described and illustrated in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (2008) as a baptismal font probably of the 13th century made of Purbeck stone and decorated with a blind arcade of pointed arches that have crosses, medallions, flowers and one shield in the spandrels. The CRSBI (ibid.) reports: "the bowl is unlined and there is lock damage on the rim." The base is roughly cylindrical, but four indented vertical rows of dogtooth motif make it slightly quatrefoil in shape; the upper rim of the base has nail-head motif all around below an angle moulding [NB: it is not clear from the available images whether the angle moulding is part of the basin or the base block]. The lower base is a modern addition according to the CRSBI (ibid.)
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.27929, -1.02447
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 16′ 45.44″ N, 1° 1′ 28.09″ W
UTM: 30U 634769 5793941
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (basin of Purbeck stone)
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 8 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm*
Basin Total Height: 45 cm*
Height of Base: 61 cm [calculated w/modern lower base]
Height of Central Column: 47.25 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 106 cm* [92.5 cm* w/o the modern lower base]
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements a/p The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.csbi.ac.uk/ed/nh/gbrin/index.htm] [accessed 15 October 2006]]
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2006-10-15 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
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