Kettering No. 1 / Cateringe / Cytringan / Keteringes / Ketteringe / Kyteringas

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].