Alderton / Aldrintone

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view of church exterior - southwest end

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2009 Cj1340 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alderton_Church.jpg] [accessed 5 June 2012]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12271ALD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (early?), Decorated
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret of Antioch, Alderton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Address: 11 Church Rd, Alderton, Tewkesbury GL20 8NR, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1242 622626
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4077, between the A5 and the A508, 5 km S of Towcester, 15 km S of Northampton. 16 km N of Milton Keynes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Cleley
Font Notes:
Noted in Mee (1945): "600-year-old font". Described in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular]. Stem and bowl in one, the stem panelled, the bowl with a frieze of leaves and small heads." The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 5, 2002) notes: "In 1196-8 John Maudit, [...] was in dispute first with Matthew de Clere and then Gerard de Mauquency, the lord of Stoke Bruerne, concerning his claim to the advowson of Alderton. [...] With the exception of the tower, the church of St. Margaret was almost entirely rebuilt in 1847-8, possibly reusing some medieval masonry […] The octagonal early 14th-century font, with panelling of cusped lancets and a frieze of heads, foliage and interlocking dragons, is evidently by the same hand as the sedilia at Paulerspury."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 642440 5775929

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945, [http://northamptoncastle.homeip.net/northampton/books/Arthur%20Mee.htm] [accessed 15 October 2006]