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Scene Description: the font (?) still in the old church ruins; claimed by some to be the old Norman font, which it is obviously not

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Scene Description: the font now at Kettering

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12298FAX
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Denys [aka St. Denis'] [demolished in 1958]
Church Patron Saints: St. Denys [aka Denis, Dennis, Dionis, Dyonisius]
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: The now-deserted village of Faxton was located near Lamport, between Northampton and Market Harborough
Ecclesiastic Region: [Diocese of Peterborough]
Historical Region: Hundred of Orlingbury
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 4, 1937) notes: "The building is largely of 13th-century date, but incorporates parts of a 12th-century chapel […] The font is a relic of the 12th-century church, and has a plain circular bowl, short stem, and chamfered base. On the north side of the bowl is a small rudelycut rectangular recess." Noted in Mee (1945) as a Norman font. Pevsner & Cherry (1973) report the Church of St. Denis as "demolished in 1958" and the font moved to All Saints Kettering. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) entry for Kettering All Saints': "Uncomfortably placed in the SE corner of the nave is the font from the church of St Denis, Faxton demolished in 1958." [NB: an octagonal object remaining at the Faxton site, and sometimes referred to as the old font, is actually not a font]. The Kettering Parish web site [www.kaspc.btck.co.uk/WorshipPrayer/Baptism] [accessed 31 May 2012] illustrates the Faxton font and notes: "The font was brought into All Saints Church, Kettering from the nearby redundant parish church of St Denis, Faxton in the summer of 1955."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 647516 5804031

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 8 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 52 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 68 cm*
Basin Total Height: 36 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 104 cm*

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: Round, flat and plain, with turned handle/finial; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-05-31 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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. Accessed: 2009-04-15 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973