Canons Ashby

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12280CAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary, Canons Ashby [formerly an Augustinian Priory]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canons_Ashby_Priory
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: mid-13thC church of the earlier mid-12thC priory
Church Address: Canons Ashby, Daventry NN11 3SD, United Kingdom
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2-3 km N of Moreton Pinkney, about 12 km S of Daventry and the A45
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, [http://northamptoncastle.homeip.net/northampton/books/Arthur%20Mee.htm] [accessed 16 October 2006]
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 135