Slapton nr. Towcester / Slaptone
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view of font
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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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Jeffrey, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 July 2013 by Philip Jeffrey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3544680] [accessed 23 November 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking north
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4471836] [accessed 23 November 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking southeast
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bikeboy, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2015 by Bikeboy [ww.geograph.org.uk/photo/4633477] [accessed 23 November 2015]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rob Roy, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 February 2007 by Rob Roy [www.flickr.com/photos/robroy/536414197/] [accessed 23 November 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14321SLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Botolph
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by the S doorway
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Church Notes: the church has very good medieval (14th-15thC) paintings; see www.paintedchurch.org/slapcris.htm and www.paintedchurch.org/slapgoss.htm
Church Address: 4 Chapel Lane, Slapton, Northamptonshire, NN12 8PF
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A43, 6 km WSW of Towcester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Foxley [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font? (only the basin is original; base and plinth are modern)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 632407 5775693
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 07′ 00.51″ N, 1° 03′ 57.64″ W
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]