Courteenhall / Cawtnoll / Cortehalle / Cortenhale / Cortenhalle / Cortnall / Courtenhall / Courtnall / Curtehala / Curtenhall / Kortinhale
Image copyright © Geoff Pick, 2007
CC-BY-SA-3.0
Results: 1 records
view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geoff Pick, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 January 2007 by Geoff Pick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/312733] [accessed 4 June 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12288COU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, on the N side of the westernmost pillar of the arcade between the nave and the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: Courteenhall, Milton Malsor, Northamptonshire NN7 2QG, UK
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 8 km S of Northampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Wymersley [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
Click to view
There are two entries for Courteenhall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP7553/courteenhall/] [accessed 29 June 2025], one of which report a priest, but not a church, in it. Noted in Mee (1945): "There was probably a church here in Saxon times, for the font is from the 11th century". The Victoria County History (Northamptonshire, vol. 4, 1937) notes: "The earliest church appears to have been an aisled late-12th-century structure, evidences of which remain in the north arcade, the south doorway, and elsewhere. [...] The plain circular bucket-shaped font is apparently of 12th-century date; it is lead-lined and stands on a square masonry base".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 644775 5782006
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.169523, -0.883009
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 10′ 10.28″ N, 0° 52′ 58.83″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Notes: conical with ball finial
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- 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 18 October 2006]