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Scene Description: the 18th-century font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 October 2005 by Janice Tostevin
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 14358APE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 7 km N of Oundle
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Century and Period: 11th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photograph of this modern font
Font Notes:
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The Domesday Survey of 1086 reports a priest in this locality. A late font is noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "C18 baluster with small marble bowl" [NB: the present church dates from the Perpendicular period, and replaced an earlier church, but we have no information on the early font(s)]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.5495, -0.4898
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 32′ 58.2″ N, 0° 29′ 23.28″ W
UTM: 30U 670194 5825119
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973