Brockhall / Brocole

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12278BRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Brockhall
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the S aisle
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17542939
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Notes: ca. 1200 church
Church Address: Brockhall, Northampton NN7 4JY, UK
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A5 and M1, 6 km E of Daventry
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lichfield
Historical Region: Hundred of Nobottle [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
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, [http://northamptoncastle.homeip.net/northampton/books/Arthur%20Mee.htm] [accessed 15 October 2006]
  • 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, p. 283
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 127