Duston / Dustone
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "A view of the southern side of St Luke's in Duston.The oldest parts of the church date from the C12th these include the West wall, South doorway, part of the south arcade and part of the tower. The C13th contributed the rest of the tower, the windows to the West wall and the clerestory, while the C14th added the chancel. The South porch was appended in 1878-9 and the whole church was restored c.1884."
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2004; CRSBI, 2018
Image Source: digital image in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/721/] [accessed 9 April 2018]
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design element - patterns - fluted
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2004; CRSBI, 2018
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2004; CRSBI, 2018
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design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2004; CRSBI, 2018
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view of church interior - looking southwest
Scene Description: the font and cover are almost entirely hidden by one of the pillars of the south arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2004; CRSBI, 2018
Image Source: digital image in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/721/] [accessed 9 April 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12293DUS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Aylesbury group?
Cognate Fonts: other Aylesbury fonts, especially the one at Eydon [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Luke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, just W of the S doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Luke
Church Address: Off Main Rd, Duston, Northampton NN5 6JB, UK -- Tel.: 01604 590419
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A4500-A5076 crossroads, now in the W suburbs of Northampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Nobottle
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Duston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7261/duston/] [accessed 9 April 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Mee (1945) writes: "massive Norman font with fluting carved round the base of the bowl." [NB: the measurements, as given in the CRSBI site [cf. below], do not support Mee's use of 'massive']. In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Norman. The lower half of the bowl fluted." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2018): "In the S aisle, W of the S doorway. The lead-lined bowl is inaccurately circular, plain in the upper part, which has a roll rim, and tapered in the lower part, which is decorated with vertical fluting with a scalloped upper edge. The lower rim has a square moulding. The bowl stands on a circular chamfered plinth, and this on a circular step and a modern square step [...] The font at Eydon also has fluting in its lower part, and is even less accurately shaped than this one". The CRSBI dates it to the 12th century. The Parish web site [http://www.duston.org.uk/stlktour.htm] [accessed 4 November 2007] informs: "To the left of the south doorway is the font, carved from a block of Norman limestone, surmounted by a cover presented by the Sunday School in 1902, as a replacement for one which had disappeared at an unknown time in the past."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 640714 5790056
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.2429, -0.939
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 14′ 34.44″ N, 0° 56′ 20.4″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 10.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm*
Basin Total Height: 48 cm* [without the centre ring]
Height of Base: 51.5 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 89.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2018)
LID INFORMATION
Date: ca. 1902
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.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]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 358