Canons Ashby

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B01: design element - motifs - tracery

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 12280CAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [formerly an Augustinian Priory]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located near Moreton Pinkney, in the Dabentry area
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Font Notes:
Noted in Mee (1945): "The 14th century font is very beautiful, seven of its eight panels having imitations of windows". In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Octagonal, with patterns of window tracery as if from a pattern book. They are both Dec[orated] and Perp[endicular]." [NB: part of the church remains from the mid-13th century Augustinian Priory church, but we have no information of an earlier font in 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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973