Faxton / Fauxston / Fextone / Foxton
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the font now at Kettering
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Image Source: digital photograph in Kettering Parish [www.kaspc.btck.co.uk/WorshipPrayer/Baptism] [accessed 31 May 2012]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mr. R. Carr, 2012
Image Source: Painting iby JL Carr in the J.L. Carr Collection [www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=30014] [accdessed 31 May 2012]
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view of font
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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Image Source: detail of a digital image in http://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=616aa03a-61f5-406b-91d6-19654721a6a2 [accessed 16 April 2009]
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view of font in context
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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Image Source: digital image in http://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=616aa03a-61f5-406b-91d6-19654721a6a2 [accessed 16 April 2009]
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view of church exterior - north view
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Image Source: B&W photograph source, date and copyright unkown [www.rypin.freeserve.co.uk/nthchurchphotos/Faxton%20St%20Dennis.htm] [accessed 31 May 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12298FAX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Denys [aka St. Denis'] [demolished in 1958]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Denys [aka Denis, Dennis, Dionis, Dyonisius]
Previous Font Location(s): Parish Church of St. Denys [aka St. Denis']; demolished in 1958
Church Address: [abandoned]
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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 Mawsley [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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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-. 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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 216 and fn