Cranford St. Andrew / Craneford / Craunford
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/533904] [accessed 22 May 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12289CRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [basin only] [composite font], Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: 12 St Andrews Ln, Cranford, Northamptonshire NN14 4AQ
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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]
Additional Comments: altered font: base is modern, 19thC -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
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
UTM: 30U 660447 5806779
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.387724, -0.642255
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 23′ 15.8″ N, 0° 38′ 32.12″ W
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, Northampton, vol. 3: 186-189 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66285] [accessed 31 March 2009]
- 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]
- 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, p. 169