Flore / Floore / Flora
Image copyright © Greysman, 2010
No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
Results: 3 records
view of font and cover in context - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Greysman, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 3 August 2010 by Greysman, in Waymarking [www.waymarking.com/waymarks/wm8BTZ_Font_All_Saints_Church_Flore_Northamptonshire] [accessed 1 June 2020]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ian Rob, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 December 2005 by Ian Rob [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/92021] [accessed 1 June 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Matt Fascione, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2015 by Matt Fascione [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4734031] [accessed 1 June 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12299FLO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NW corner of the nave [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Notes: 12thC church;
Church Address: 2 The Avenue, Flore, Northampton NN7 4LX, UK
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A45, 6 km ESE of Daventry
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Nobottle
Additional Comments: disused font / abandoned font / restored font
Font Notes:
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There are five entries for Flore [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP6460/flore/] [accessed 1 June 2020] none of which mentions a priest or church in it. Mee (1945) writes: "The 16th century barrel-shaped font has had a checquered career, for it was cast out of the church to stand in the fields as a cattle trough, then rescued and given shelter in Dodford church, and eventually brought home; it has one of the staples with which it was locked [...]". There is no mention of any font in Pevsner & Cherry (1972). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP6419359847] notes; "Church. Mainly C13 with C14 work, south porch and east end of chancel C15,
repaired 1796 and interior restored and reseated 1876-7"; no font mentioned in it.
repaired 1796 and interior restored and reseated 1876-7"; no font mentioned in it.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 632415 5788736
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.2331, -1.061
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 13′ 59.16″ N, 1° 3′ 39.6″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: the present font is modern [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- 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]