Brigstock / Bricstoc
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12276BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew, Brigstock
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526917
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Notes: pre-Conquest church?
Church Address: Church St, Brigstock, Kettering NN14 3EX, United Kingdom
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A6116, 10 km NNE of Kettering, ESE of Corby
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Corby [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Anglo-Saxon church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Brigstock [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP9485/brigstock/] [accessed 29 June 2025], one of which, in the tenancy of King William, reports a priest, but not a church, in it. The font is noted in Mee (1945): "The font is 13th century". [NB: the tower is said to be 10th-century Anglo-Saxon, but we have no information on the original font of that time]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
- 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]