Fawsley
Image copyright © Walwyn, 2008
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Results: 12 records
B01: design element - motifs - scroll - 4
Scene Description: very thick, at the angles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Walwyn, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 November 2008 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat//3111483102/in/set-72157608088271374/] [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 25 March 2009]
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B02: design element - motifs - piping - 4?
Scene Description: a single one, in the middle of the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Walwyn, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 November 2008 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat//3111483102/in/set-72157608088271374/] [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 25 March 2009]
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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Walwyn, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 November 2008 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat//3111483102/in/set-72157608088271374/] [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 25 March 2009]
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BH01: human figure - head - male - bearded
Scene Description: one of four heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eric Hardy, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Eric Hardy on 25 May 2005 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/erichardyuk/186360275/in/pool-fonts] [accessed 1 October 2008]
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BH02: head
Scene Description: perhaps an animal or a fabulous beast?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eric Hardy, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Eric Hardy on 25 May 2005 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/erichardyuk/186360275/in/pool-fonts] [accessed 1 October 2008]
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Walwyn, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 November 2008 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat//3111483102/in/set-72157608088271374/] [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 25 March 2009]
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view of base
Scene Description: modern; 19th-century?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Walwyn, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 November 2008 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat//3111483102/in/set-72157608088271374/] [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 25 March 2009]
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view of basin
view of basin
Scene Description: note the damage on the upper rim; it could have been inflicted to use the font as a trough
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Walwyn, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 November 2008 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat//3111483102/in/set-72157608088271374/] [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 25 March 2009]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GeeBee, 2005
Image Source: photograph by GeeBee, 2005 [http://www.geebeephoto.com/Walks/Fawsley/index.htm] [accessed 1 October 2008]
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view of church interior - nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GeeBee, 2005
Image Source: photograph by GeeBee, 2005 [http://www.geebeephoto.com/Walks/Fawsley/index.htm] [accessed 1 October 2008]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GeeBee, 2005
Image Source: photograph by GeeBee, 2005 [http://www.geebeephoto.com/Walks/Fawsley/index.htm] [accessed 1 October 2008]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13880FAW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A361, 6-7 km SSW of Daventry, WSW of Northampton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [re-tooled] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Walwyn, of Midland Churches [http://professor-moriarty.com/moriarties/midland_churches], for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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There is no mention of the font in Whellan Francis' 1849 History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Northamptonshire. The basin is illustrated in an undated drawing by Henry E.L. Dryden, now at the Sir Henry Dryden Collection, Northamptonshire. Pevsner & Cherry (1973) note: "Font. Originally probably C13, but the big heads certainly re-worked." Noted in The Knightley Parishes Benefice web site [http://www.theknightleyparishes.co.uk/fawsley.htm] [accessed 1 October 2008]: "The major part of the font is early 13th century, although the original carving has clearly deteriorated, and has been reworked." Only the basin remains of the original font, and badly damaged as well, though re-tooled at some point; it is rounded but made square by the large scroll-like protrusions topped by heads at the angles, the heads themselves appear to be of grotesque humans and beasts; the upper rim has a broad flat moulding, and there is another at the lower angle of the basin; the upper rim may have had some decoration but it badly damaged; there is single piping motif on each of the basin sides; the columnar base, a broad central shaft and four angle colonnettes. is modern, probably 19th-century; the outer colonnettes have foliated capitals while the central shaft has just round mouldings at the top and bottom.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (with heads) (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
Drainage Notes: no lining
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973