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BU01: design element - motifs - floral - fleuron

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 12278BRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A5, 6 km E of Daventry
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the S aisle
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
Parker (1849) writes: "The font is octagonal and has a flower on each side (in a hollow moulding between the bason and the shaft) of Perpendicular character." Noted in Mee (1945): "The 15th century font has flowers on its eight sides." In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Plain, octagonal, Perp[endicualr]. On the underside of the bowl fleurons." [NB: the fabric of the building goes back to Norman times, but we have no information of the earlier font of this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945
Parker, John Henry, Architectural notices of the churches of the Archdeaconry of Northampton: Deaneries of Higham Ferrers and Haddon, London; Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1849
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973