Easton Neston
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INFORMATION
FontID: 12295EAS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Easton Neston, Northamptonshire NN12 7HS
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located just N of Paulerspury, NE of Towcester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Cleley
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century / 15th century, Early English? / Perpendicular?
Font Notes:
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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-. Accessed: 2009-04-02 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973