Gretton / Gretone

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12306GRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James the Great, Gretton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526377
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Notes: 12thC church
Church Address: 2 Station Rd, Gretton, Corby NN17 3BU, United Kingdom
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A6003, 4-5 km NE of Rockingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Corby [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
There is an entry for this Gretton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP8994/gretton/] [accessed 29 June 2025; it mentions a priest, but not a church, in it. Mee (1945) reports as a baptismal font of the 15th century. In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with shields and panelling." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP8985494417] notes: "Church. Early C12, C13 chancel re-modelled C18 [...] Perpendicular octagonal font." [NB: an early church from the Early Norman period is reported here, but we have no information on the font from that church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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 20 October 2006]
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 242