Wellingborough No. 1 / Wedlingaberie / Wellyngburgh / Wendelburie / Wendlesberie / Wenlingburc / Wendlingburgh
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view of church exterior - west tower
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 1992
Image Source: photograph taken by John Salmon in 1992 [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2623145] [accessed 30 May 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 07631WEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font?
Church/Chapel: [cf. FontNotes]
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: One of the excavated Roman sites near Wellingborough [Wellingborough is located 13 km S of Kettering]
Font Location in Church: [not in a church - in the excavated Roman bath-house]
Century and Period: 4th century (?), Early Christian
Cognate Fonts: other such tanks listed at Bishop's Norton and Walesby (Lincs.), not with the same ornamentation
Font Notes:
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Reported in Frend (2003) as a baptism lead tank, one of a number of large vessels of lead of about 40 gallons' capacity [NB: note that Petts (2003) gives measurements between 97 cm and 46 cm of diameter] used for baptism in Roman Britain; this one was discovered near Wellingbororugh, damaged, in the ruins of a Roman bath-house.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, lead
Font Shape: round?
Basin Interior Shape: round?
Basin Exterior Shape: round?
REFERENCES
Frend, William H.C., "Roman Britain, a Failed Promise", The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300, York: York Medieval Press, 2003
Petts, David, "Votive Deposits and Christian Practice in Late Roman Britain", The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300, York: York Medieval Press, 2003