Loddington nr. Kettering / Lodintone
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BBU: design element - patterns - lattice pattern
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lord Muttley McFester, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2009 by Lord Muttley McFester [www.flickr.com/photos/16545729@N03/3781733012/] [accessed 18 August 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2012 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2871658] [accessed 18 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lord Muttley McFester, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2009 by Lord Muttley McFester [www.flickr.com/photos/16545729@N03/3781733012/] [accessed 18 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12320LOD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Church Address: 11 Main Street, Loddington, Northamptonshire NN14 1LA, UK
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off Harrington Rd., S of Rothwell and the A14, W of Kettering
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Rothwell
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Loffington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8178/loddington/] [accessed 18 August 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted in Mee (1945): "the barrel-shaped font has criss-cross pattern round the edge of the bowl, which is medieval." English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP8146278355] (1957) rewports a "C12 round font with
latticed top band" in this church. Not mentioned in Pevsner & Cherry (1973)
latticed top band" in this church. Not mentioned in Pevsner & Cherry (1973)
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 649435 5807427
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.39666, -0.803651
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 23′ 47.98″ N, 0° 48′ 13.15″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood and metal, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: wooden round, flat and plain platform, with four metal ribs on it; wodden Latin cross finial; modern
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 25 October 2006]