Harlestone / Erlestone / Harleston / Heroluestone / Heroluestune

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Results: 5 records

LBH01: cleric? - bishop? - head

on the southeast side [cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: on the southeast side [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ron Baxter & CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in the CRSBI [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-harle.html] [accessed 17 April 2009]
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LBH02: human figure - head

on the northeast side [cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: on the northeast side [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ron Baxter & CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in the CRSBI [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-harle.html] [accessed 17 April 2009]
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LBH03: human figure - head

on the northwest side [cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: on the northwest side [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ron Baxter & CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in the CRSBI [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-harle.html] [accessed 17 April 2009]
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LBH04: human figure - head

on the southwest side [cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: on the southwest side [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ron Baxter & CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in the CRSBI [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-harle.html] [accessed 17 April 2009]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ron Baxter & CRSBI, 2008
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12309HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only] -- 13th century [base only] [composite font?], Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew, Harlestone
Font Location in Church: Iinside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17526439
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Church Ln, Lower Harlestone, Northampton NN7 4EN, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1604 770402
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A428, 8-9 km NW of Northempton [The village and the church are part of the Spencer estates]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Nobottle [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: composite font?: 12thC basin on a 13thC base?
Font Notes:
Described in Parker (1849): "The font is of cylindrical form, a little larger in diameter at the top than at the bottom. It is quite plain, and beneath it there is a small portion of circular column, adorned with four rudely carved heads; the whole resting on a modern chamfered circular base." Noted in Mee (1945): "12th century church to which the font also belongs (a round font with four heads projecting from the base)." Described in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Font. Circular, plain, but from the foot project four heads. Early C13?". Described and illustrated in the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (2008) which appears to suggest that the font could well be a composite: "it is not certain that the bowl and the drum are contemporary. The simple bowl could, of course, be any date but the form was apparently popular in the earlier 12thc. And not really thereafter. The interior is irregularly hollowed out, and the crude bowl sits ill with the refined aesthetic of the heads." The CRSBI (ibid.) further identifies the heads as "a youthful bishop" at the southeast; "beardless but fleshier" at the northeast; "similar to NE" but very eroded at the northwest; similar agin to the northeast head "but the nose is markedly hooked".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Diameter (inside rim): 52 - 56 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 71 cm*
Basin Total Height: 44 cm*
Height of Central Column: 22 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements a/p CRSBI]

REFERENCES

  • 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.
  • 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]
  • Parker, John Henry, Architectural notices of the churches of the Archdeaconry of Northampton: Deaneries of Higham Ferrers and Haddon, London; Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1849, p. 272
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 247