Lilbourne

INFORMATION

FontID: 12317LIL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Country Name: England

Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located near the county boundary with Warwickshire

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Font Notes: Click to view

Mee (1945) writes: "By the modern font are fragments of its Norman predecessor." Not mentioned in Pevsner & Cherry (1973) [NB: a church is believed to have existed here since Anglo-Saxon times, but we have no information on a font of that period in this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: fragments

REFERENCES

Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945