Castle Ashby / Asebi / Asscheby Davy / Castel Assheby / Essebi / Esshebi

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UB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: one at each end of the stem

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view of church exterior - southwest end

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12281CAS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Church Location: Castle Ashby, Northamptonshire, NN7 1LQ
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 12 km SSE of Northampton. The church is located in the grounds of Castle Ashby House
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Wymersley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, behind the last pillar of the arcade that divides the nave from the S aisle
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Noted in Mee (1945) as a medieval font. Described in the Victoria County History (Northampton, vol, 4, 1927): "The outer doorway of the north porch is of late 12th-century date, but there is no other work of this period, and the doorway is not in its original position. Whether it belonged to an earlier building on the site or was brought here from elsewhere cannot now be determined. [...] The existing structure can only be regarded in the light of a 14th- and rr 5th-century rebuilding. [...] The font has a plain octagonal bowl and stem on a moulded base, and is probably contemporary with the nave arcades" [14th-century?]. Not mentioned in Pevsner & Cherry (1973).

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 654238 5788701

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Notes: octagonal low-dome wooden cover with large cusped trefoiled panels; avian finial; appears Victorian

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-03-31 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945