Slapton nr. Towcester / Slaptone

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design element - architectural - buttress or column

Scene Description: are these the supports of a lost arcade? [cf. FontNotes]

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design element - motifs - moulding

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view of church exterior - north view

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view of church interior - nave - looking north

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view of church interior - nave - looking southeast

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view of font

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14321SLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph
Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Church Location: 4 Chapel Lane, Slapton, Northamptonshire, NN12 8PF
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located off the A43, 6 km WSW of Towcester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Foxley [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by the S doorway
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church Notes: the church has very good medieval (14th-15thC) paintings; see www.paintedchurch.org/slapcris.htm and www.paintedchurch.org/slapgoss.htm
There is an entry for this Slapton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6446/slapton/] [accessed 23 November 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The baptismal font here consists of a bucket-shaped basin plain but for colonnettes with moulded bases resting on a moulding around the sides; it is quite possible that the basin has lost its upper portion, and that these colonnettes were the supports of a blind arcade; the base is now a circular pedestal made up of multiple blocks, and raised on a circular plinth with kneeling stone; modern. The wooden cover is a plain octagonal pyramid with a ball finial, perhaps 17th-century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 07′ 00.51″ N, 1° 03′ 57.64″ W
UTM: 30U 632407 5775693

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]