Harringworth No. 2
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B01: design element - motifs - tracery
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 12312HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located near Wakerley, between Kettering and Oakham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
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Noted in Mee (1945): "The square medieval font has a pair of traceried window arches on three sides". In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Square, with two shallow ogee arches on each side, c. 1300". [cf. Harringworth No. 1 for a fragment of a baptismal font from ca. 1200]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat square platform, on which four vertical scrolls around a centre pivot
REFERENCES
Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973