Northampton No. 3

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12343NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Giles, Northampton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Giles%27_Church,_Northampton
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Address: St Giles' Terrace, Northampton NN1 2BN, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1604 628623
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on Sheep Street, Northampton
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
Reported in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "the font is richly panelled in the later English style". In Whellan (1849) as a "richly panelled octagonal font". Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer... (1870-1872) notes: "a later English octagonal font" in this church. The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 3, 1930) notes: "The churches of St. Peter, the Holy Sepulchre and All Saints are all, as we have seen, probably as old as the Norman Conquest. [...] Bishop Hugh of Lincoln's charter [...] specifies nine by name: All Saints', St. Giles', St. Michael's, Holy Sepulchre, St. Mary's (by the Castle), St. Gregory's, [...] St. Peter's, St. Edmund's and St. Bartholomew's, as well as the chapel of St. Thomas. All these churches then were in existence by 1200 [...] The church of St. Giles [was...] originally built early in the 12th century [...] The octagonal stone font is said to be partly of 15th century date, (fn. 143) but nearly all the carving is modern." [the VCH entry has a footnote: "Serjeantson, op. cit. 161. An old font had, however, been removed in 1654: ibid. 57."] [NB: we have no information of the font of the original church here].

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.
  • Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51183] [accessed 21 February 2007]
  • Whellan, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Northamptonshire, comprising a general survey of the county, and a history of the Diocese of Peterborough: with separate [...], London: Whittaker & Co., Ave Maria Lane, 1849, p. 125 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=dhAHAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA442&lpg=RA1-PA442&dq=aynho+church+font&source=bl&ots=Trdc4a8vGv&sig=Ev4eeBfJWWwb64uB3bddAOSSxVI&hl=en&ei=uBzJSfGUBIjOMpCb-ekD&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPR1,M1] [accessed 24 March 2009]
  • Wilson, John Marius, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales: embracing recent changes in counties, dioceses, parishes, and boroughs [...], Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co., 1870-1872, [www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions_entry.jsp] [accessed 31 October 2006]