Welford nr. Northampton / Wellesford

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Yohan euan o4, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2009 by Yohan euan o4 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Mary%27s_Church,_Welford.JPG] [accessed 21 May 2015]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12818WEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: West Street, Welford, Northamptonshire NN6 6HB
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 24 km NW of Northampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Guilsborough [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the likely Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for this Welford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6480/welford/] [accessed 21 May 2015]; it mentions a priest, but not a church, though there probably was one in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "an old font" in this church. Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Octagonal, with pointed-quatrefoiled arches and in the spandrels quatrefoils with pointed quatrefoils in them -- probably late C13."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 632404 5809392
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.418699, -1.053028
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 25′ 7.31″ N, 1° 3′ 10.9″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

  • 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=51385] [accessed 15 March 2007]
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 450