Islip nr. Kettering No. 2 / Eslep / Hystlepa / Isteslepe / Itteslep / Slepe / Ycteslepe

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12316ISL

Object Type: Stoup

Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Font Location in Church: By the south doorway [cf. FontNotes]

Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Nicholas%27_Church,_Islip

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Address: School Lane, Islip, Northamptonshire, NN14 3LQ, UK

Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off the A14, 15 km E of Kettering

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough

Historical Region: Hundred of Huxloe

Font Notes: Click to view

The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 3, 1930) writes; "to the east of the south doorway a groined niche for a stoup, the supporting half-octagonal shaft of which still remains." Noted in Mee (1945) as a holy-water stoup of the same age as the font [15th century?] located by the south doorway. [cf. Index entry fro Islip (Nhants) no. 1 for the baptismal font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.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/Arthur%20Mee.htm] [accessed 31 October 2006]