Luddington / Leddington / Lodyngton in the Brooke / Lollington / Luddington-in-the-Brook / Ludington / Lullington / Lullinthone / Lullintone / Lullyngton / Lylington

INFORMATION

Font ID: 12323LUD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (mid?), Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret [formerly St. Andrew's]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17557747
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina] [formerly St. Andrew]
Church Notes: "The church, which until the latter part of the 18th century was dedicated to St. Andrew, (fn. 27) has been known as the church of St. Margaret of Antioch since 1791." [source: VCH entry [cf. FontNotes]]
Church Address: Luddington Road, Luddington, Northamptonshire PE8 5QT
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located S of Lutton, E of Hemington
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Polebrook
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here?)
Font Notes:
The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 3, 1930) notes: "The building is almost entirely of 15th century date, but it appears to have taken the place of a 13th century church [...] The buttresses and part of the walling at the west end of the nave may belong to the 13th-century church [...] The building was very completely restored in 1874 [...] The font is of 15th century date, with plain octagonal bowl and stem". Noted in Mee (1945): "The plain octagonal font is 500 years old". Not mentioned in Pevsner & Cherry (1973). [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to the 13th century, but we have no information of the earlier font from this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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.htm] [accessed 26 October 2006]