Harringworth No. 2 / Haringeworde

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B01: design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12312HAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Harringworth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Seaton Rd, Harringworth, Corby NN17 3AF, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1536 402106
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B672, 8-9 km N of Corby
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Corby
Font Notes:
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, [http://northamptoncastle.homeip.net/northampton/books/Arthur%20Mee.htm] [accessed 24 October 2006]
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 250