Bampton / Bampton Grange / Banton

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design element - architectural - arch-head - round - 4
inscription
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
INFORMATION
FontID: 11036BAM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Patrick
Church Patron Saints: St. Patrick [aka Pádraig, Padrig, Patricius]
Church Location: Grange Field, Bampton, Cumbria CA10 2QR
Country Name: England
Location: Cumbria, North West
Directions to Site: Located off the A6, 5 km NW of Shap, 13 km S of Penrith
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle
Historical Region: North Westmorland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Bulman [www.churches-uk-ireland.org/cumbria.html] for his photograph of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
No entry for this Bampton found in the Domesday survey. Pevsner (1967) writes: "Font. Plain, square, with a round arch on each side. Probably C12, but dated 1662." English Heritage [Listing NGR: NY5215718040] (1968) reports a composite font here: "Square C12 font bowl on C20 plinth, the bowl inscribed: 'MW 1662'." [NB: this is probably one more case in which the date inscribed on the font is that of its restoration to liturgical use after having been driven out of the church during the Reformation].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
54.555239,
-2.741052
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
54° 33′ 18.86″ N,
2° 44′ 27.79″ W
UTM: 30U 516747 6045332
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: letters and numbers
Inscription Location: on the basin
Inscription Text: "MW 1662"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: small, conical; like a clown's hat
REFERENCES
Curwen, John F., The Later Records relating to North Westmorland: or the Barony of Appleby, Kendal: T. Wilson, 1932
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cumberland and Westmorland, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967