Cranford St. Andrew / Craneford / Craunford

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INFORMATION
FontID: 12289CRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: 12 St Andrews Ln, Cranford, Northamptonshire NN14 4AQ
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located across (N) from Cranford St. John and the A14, ESE of Kettering
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Huxloe -- Hundred of Navisland [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for Cranford [St Andrew and St John] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/cranford-st-andrew-and-st-john/] [accessed 6 June 2019] none of which mentions cleric or church in it.
Mee (1945) writes: "The 15th century font has a staple by which it was locked [...]" In Parker (1849): "The font is a plain octagon, resting on a four-sided shaft, three sides of which have been enriched with Early English tracery." The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 3, 1920) notes: "The earliest part of the building is the nave arcade, which is of late 12th-century date [...] The font is ancient and consists of a plain octagonal bowl on a four-sided modern panelled stem: it has a flat 17th-century cover."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.387724, -0.642255
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 23′ 15.8″ N, 0° 38′ 32.12″ W
UTM: 30U 660447 5806779
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Gardner, Samuel, A Guide to English Gothic Architecture (illustrated by numerous drawings & photographs), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1925
Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945
Parker, John Henry, Architectural notices of the churches of the Archdeaconry of Northampton: Deaneries of Higham Ferrers and Haddon, London; Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1849