Moreton Pinkney / Mortone
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Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/nh/morep/index.htm]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 12325MOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Moreton Pinkney
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17545429
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Moreton Pinkney, Daventry NN11 3SJ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1295 768994
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A422, NW of Banbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Foxley [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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Noted in Mee (1945): "simple round font of Norman days". Described and illustrated The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (2008): "At W end of nave, a plain slightly tapering tub font on a later square chamfered base of coursed ashlar blocks. The bowl is lined with lead and there are repairs to lock damage on the rim to N and S [...] The font and N doorway are not closely dateable." The font consists of a plain bucket-shaped basin raised on a wider quadrangular base. Not mentioned in Pevsner & Cherry (1973)
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 10 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 57 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 77 cm*
Basin Total Height: 55 cm*
Height of Base: 50 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI
REFERENCES
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.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]