Cranford St. John / Craneford / Craunford
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding
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P01: inscription
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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stuart Pinfold, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 September 2009 by Stuart Pinfold [www.flickr.com/photos/stuartpinfold/3979889384/] [accessed 22 May 2012]
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UB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stuart Pinfold, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 September 2009 by Stuart Pinfold [www.flickr.com/photos/stuartpinfold/3979889384/] [accessed 22 May 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stuart Pinfold, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 September 2009 by Stuart Pinfold [www.flickr.com/photos/stuartpinfold/3979889384/] [accessed 22 May 2012]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kokai, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 December 2005 by Kokai [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/92848] [accessed 22 May 2012]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stuart Pinfold, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 September 2009 by Stuart Pinfold [www.flickr.com/photos/stuartpinfold/3979889384/] [accessed 22 May 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12290CRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: According to Mee (1945), "the north arcade of the nave is Norman"
Church Address: Church Ln, Cranford, Kettering NN14 4AE, UK -- Tel.: (01536) 330545
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located across from Cranford St. Andrew, near Kettering
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Huxloe -- Hundred of Navisland [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original late-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) lists a medieval font here. In the Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 3, 1920): "The nave arcades are the oldest part of the building, dating from the end of the 12th century. [...] The font is of the 14th century, with a plain octagonal bowl moulded on the under side; it has a flat 17th century cover." The church interior plan in the VCH shows the font in the west end of the south aisle, just west of the south entranceway. There is an inscription in Gothic lettering on the upper surface of the plinth, around the base of the font, carved in what appears to be black marble: "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. Mark 16:16".
Mee (1945) lists a medieval font here. In the Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 3, 1920): "The nave arcades are the oldest part of the building, dating from the end of the 12th century. [...] The font is of the 14th century, with a plain octagonal bowl moulded on the under side; it has a flat 17th century cover." The church interior plan in the VCH shows the font in the west end of the south aisle, just west of the south entranceway. There is an inscription in Gothic lettering on the upper surface of the plinth, around the base of the font, carved in what appears to be black marble: "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. Mark 16:16".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 660438 5806186
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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]