Welford nr. Northampton / Wellesford

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - varied

[cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

view of church exterior - southeast view

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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 12818WEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: West Street, Welford, Northamptonshire NN6 6HB
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 24 km NW of Northampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Guilsborough [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Decorated
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

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

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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973