Barton Seagrave / Bertone
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the multiple repairs are discernible here
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Barton Seagrave Church Council, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph [http://www.st-botolphs.org.uk/] [accessed 25 March 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 20 May 2009)
view of church exterior - south portal - capital
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view of church exterior - south portal - capital
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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail
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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail
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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail
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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail
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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - detail
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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum
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view of church exterior - north portal - archivolt - detail
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view of church exterior - north portal
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
![Source caption: "St. Botolph's Church [...] The chancel, nave and central tower are Norman, probably early 12th century. There are later additions and alterations."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1191113008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Botolph's Church [...] The chancel, nave and central tower are Norman, probably early 12th century. There are later additions and alterations."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P L Chadwick, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2019 by P L Chadwick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/6205062] [accessed 13 November 2019]
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view of church interior - tower arch - capital
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view of church interior - tower arch - capital
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view of church interior - arcade - east arch - capital
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12275BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Botolph
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Church Address: St Botolph's Rd, Barton Seagrave, Kettering NN15 6SR, UK -- Tel.: +44 1536 414052
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A14, 2-3 km SSE of Kettering town centre, now a suburb of it
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Navisland [Domesday] -- Hundred of Huxloe
Additional Comments: damaged font / repaired font [cf. FontNotes] -- emailed Parish contact for permission 25 March 2009--> (received)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Barton [Seagrave] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP8877/barton-seagrave/] [accessed 13 November 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Parker (1849) writes: "The font, cylindrical and plain, stands now within the lath and plaster passage leading through the tower to the chancel." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 3, 1930): "The church of St. Botolph is a building of considerable interest consisting of chancel and nave with massive axial tower built in the early part of the 12th century [...] The late 12th-century font has a plain circular bowl and flat 17th-century cover." Noted in Mee (1945): "The Norman font remains, with the staples by which it was locked [...]" Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008), with probable date of the 12th century. The font consists of two blocks: the upper 1/3 of the round basin is designed as a tall flat moulding to top the otherwise bucket-shaped basin that ends in a chamfered lower end; it is raised on a cylindrical base of two vols, the upper one chamfered. The basin is cracked horizontally [appears to be cracked right through]; the only other decoration appears to be two incised parallel lines over a vertical one, more like a mason's mark than a motif. The well of the basin is lead-lined, and there are two iron staples still remaing from the cover hardware [NB: the CRSBI (ibid.) points out "there are lock repairs on the rim"].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to St. Botolph's Church Council, Barton Seagrave, for the photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 656815 5806292
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.3844, -0.6958
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 23′ 3.84″ N, 0° 41′ 44.88″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 8.75 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 54 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 71.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 52 cm*
Height of Base: 33 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 85 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2008)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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.
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.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]