Brafield-on-the-Green / Brachafeldia / Brachefeld / Brachesfeld / Bradfield / Bragefeld / Bramfeld / Branfeld / Braumpfeld / Bravefield
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Results: 7 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - round arches
Scene Description: narrow arches, each with a clover leaf in inscribed [cf. Font notes]
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BBL01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches - beaded-tape motif
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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LB01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: where the stem meets the lower base
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LB02: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches - inverted
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LB03: design element - motifs - leaf - clover? - 4
Scene Description: at 90-degree angles of the base
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UB01: design element - motifs - chevron - nested chevrons
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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view of font - northeast side
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INFORMATION
FontID: 12287BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Laurence [aka St. Lawrence's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Church Lane, Brafield on the Green, Northamptonshire, NN7 1BA
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located SE of Northampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Wymersley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century (late?) [re-carved?] / 19th century, Late Norman? / Victorian?
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 4, 1937) has this as a modern font: "with a circular bowl elaborately carved in 'late Norman' style", but gives the date of the lower part of the tower as "late-12th-century". Pevsner & Cherry (1973) however: "Font. Big, Norman." The SCRAN databse [www.scran.ac.uk] lists a painting of this font [w/ ref. to the Northamptonshire Libraries and Information Service (4XL RAPID)]. The font consists of a square basin with motifs inside an arcade of round arches, raised on a patterned cylindrical stem, and a lower base decorated with zig-zag motif; square plinth, probably modern. Described and illustrated in the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (2008) as "stylistically 12thc. but suspiciously crisp and regularly carved." [NB: if this font is modern, we have no information on the earlier font of the original Norman church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 650709 5787639
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (inside rim): 56 cm*
Basin Total Height: 39 cm*
Height of Base: 52 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 91 cm [calculated]
Font Height (with Plinth): 109 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 75.5 x 75.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-05-31 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2009-03-25 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973