Culworth / Culeorde

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12291CUL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1662
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(mid), Restoration
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Culworth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17545273
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: church ca. 1200 with later modifications
Church Address: Culworth, Banbury OX17 2AT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1295 768994
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B4525, 9-10 km NE of Banbury
Historical Region: Hundred of Alboldstow [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12th-13thC church here)
Font Notes:
Noted in Mee (1945): "a dainty font adorned with fleur-de-lys which has been here since Charles Sturat's son came back to claim the crown" [ca. 1660?]. In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Small, octagonal, dated 1662, mostly with simple fleur-de-lis panels."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • 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]
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 172