Kettering No. 1 / Cateringe / Cytringan / Keteringes / Ketteringe / Kyteringas
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view of church exterior - west tower
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2000
Image Source: photograph taken 6 March 2000 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2623150] [accessed 23 May 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 12429KET
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: Market Place, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 0AL
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located near Irthlingborough, 13 km N of Wellingborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Huxlo
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century / 19th century, Early English? / Victorian?
Cognate Fonts: Sproxton? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
White's Directory of 1877, in its entry for Sproxton (Leics.) writes: "The font, which is octagonal and in the Early English style, like that of Kettering, in Northamptonshire, is very handsome, and bears traces of painting." The Victoria County Council (Northampton, vol. 3, 1930) notes: "In the outer wall of the south aisle is a fragment of a pre-Conquest cross shaft, possibly of the 8th or 9th century, and a Norman corbel also remains in one of the window jambs; but of any church which existed before the 14th century there are no further remains, owing to the extensive rebuilding which took place in the late mediaeval period […] The font and pulpit are modern." [NB: it is not clear whether the Kettering font reported in White (1877) as being similar to the one at Sproxton was original or, "in the Early English style" but modern].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 654939 5807203
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-. Accessed: 2009-04-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
White, William, History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Leicester and Rutland, [s.l.]: [Printed for the author], 1877