Northampton No. 4

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12187NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard [formerly Lazar Hospital; demolished]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Church Address: St Leonards Rd, Far Cotton, Northampton NN4 8DN, UK
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A508, outside the S gate of the medieval city, in Far Cotton
Town/City Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northampton
Font Notes:
The Revd. Serjeantson writes in his 1915 article on the leper hospitals of Northampton: "Possibly [...] the chapel was older than the Hospital [i.e., the Lazar Hospital of St. Leonard], and had served as a place of worship for the people of Far Cotton before the Hospital was founded[...] As is proved by the depositions made in 1567 [date of the Hospital charter], St. Leonard's had all the adjuncts of an ordinary parish church [among them] a font and a churchyard or cemetery" [source: [http://northamptoncastle.homeip.net/northampton/books/leper/leper.htm] [accessed 20 September 2006]

REFERENCES

  • Serjeantson, Robert Meyrick [Revd.], "The leper hospitals of Northampton", XVIII, 141 (March 1915), Natural History Society & Field Club (Northamptonshire], 1915