Easton Neston

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12295EAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century / 15th century, Early English? / Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Easton Neston, Northamptonshire NN12 7HS, UK
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just N of Paulerspury, NE of Towcester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Cleley
Font Notes:
Noted in Mee (1945): "The font is 15th century, carved with fleur-de-lys." Described in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Octagonal, with a band of fleurs-de-lis leaning forward and treated in a stiff-leaf manner. Is it C13?". In the Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 5, 2002) notes: "The church of St. Mary […] is essentially of the late 14th to 15th centuries, but the west window of the south aisle, a window (now blocked) on the north side of the chancel, and the chancel sedile and piscina are in a sumptuous geometrical style of c. 1280-1300. The octagonal font, with a frieze of large stiff-leaf foliage, is also late 13th-century […] in 1934 […] the font [was] moved to a position in front of the west window of the south aisle."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 638530 5778242

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

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]
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 200