Grafton Regis / Grastone
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches
Scene Description: seen here from the west side [cf. Font notes]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of font - east side
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INFORMATION
FontID: 12300GRA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Bozenham Mill Lane, Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire NN12 7SS
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A508, 13 km S of Northampton, 14 km N of Mlton Keynes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough [earlier in the diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: Hundred of Cleyley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century [re-tooled], Medieval [altered]
There is an entry for Grafton [Regis] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7546/grafton-regis/] [accessed 24 January 2018], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Mee (1945) notes a large baptismal font of the Norman period here. In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Of tub shape, Norman. With intersected arches." Described in the Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 5, 2002), after Baker [1854?]: "The church of St. Mary consists of a nave, chancel, north aisle, north chapel, west tower and south porch. The earliest feature is the late 12th-century tub-shaped font with intersecting blind arcading, drastically re-tooled in the 19th century." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) as "the only 12thc, feature" of this church, "A heavily retooled, tub font, raised on an elaborate plinth, probably Victorian. The interior is unlined. A rectangular mend on the N side of the rim indicates the removal of a lock. The main surface is carved with interlaced arcading, comprising plain, round-headed arches composed of flat bands. Beneath the arcading is a slightly bulbous moulding, carved on a separate block and probably not part of the original composition. The stone appears to be limestone."
COORDINATES
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone?
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 9 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 63 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 81 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 40 cm*
Basin Total Height: 49 cm* [includes the centre ring moulding]
Font Height (with Plinth): 131 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2008)
REFERENCES
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, [n.d.]. Accessed: 2012-06-05 00:00:00.
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-04-08 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
