Walgrave / Waldegrave / Woldgrave

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Dear, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 May 2007 by Richard Dear [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/427900] [accessed 31 May 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 07284WAL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: High Street, Walgrave, Northamptonshire NN6 9QQ
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located just NE of the Pisford reservoir, about 8 km N of Northampton (dir. Kettering)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Orlingbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 4, 1937) notes: "The ground-plan of the church, with the exception of the vestry, is of the 14th century […] The font is ancient and consists of a circular bowl with moulded top on a modern pillared stem." Not mentioned in Pevsner & Cherry (1973).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.34032, -0.824694
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 20′ 25.15″ N, 0° 49′ 28.9″ W
UTM: 30U 648192 5801118

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-05-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907