Stanion / Stannion

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B01: design element - motifs - diamond or lozenge

Scene Description: with quatrefoils inside

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B02: design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: all around the basin sides, inside diamond-shapes

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BBU01: design element - motifs - geometric - rectangular

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BU01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: all around the rounded underbowl

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LB01: design element - motifs - diamond or lozenge

Scene Description: with quatrefoils inside

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LB02: design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: inside rhomboid shapes

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LB03: design element - architectural - window - Gothic - trefoiled

Scene Description: on some of the sides of the pedestal

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LB04: design element - architectural - buttress

Scene Description: all around the pedestal base

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LB05: design element - motifs - floral - rose - 8

Scene Description: one on each panel of the lower base

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05621STA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A6116, just E of Corby
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated
Cognate Fonts: In the same general style as the font at Rattlesden
Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font perhaps of the 15th century, but using the ornamental style of the of the 14th century, in which both the basin and the pedestal base are "wholly surrounded with cusped rectangular panels"; the use of buttresses in this font is described in Bond (ibid.) as "introduced clumsily", and suggests that "the employment of battlements decoratively is another proof of the late date of the work. The lower portion of the base splays out and is ornamented with a rose in each panel. The basin is octagonal but with rounded sides which make it appear almost round in shape. Pevsner & Cherry (1973) note: "Perp[endicular], octagonal, very generously decorated. The most interesting thing is that the stem is switched by 22 1/2 degrees against the bowl so that all the quatrefoiling, lozenging, etc., appears [sic] broken at the corners, and the little buttresses support the sides and not the angles of the bowl."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: none
Notes: octagonal and flat, with cup-like finial

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973