Blakesley

INFORMATION

FontID: 14363BLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6.5 km WNW of Towcester, 20 km from Northampton
Date: ca. 1300?
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Whellan (1849) reports: "Rev. Arthur Tibbitt, the late vicar, presented a new font." [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the replaced font, believed to be from ca. 1300]

REFERENCES

Whellan, William, History, gazetteer, and directory of Northamptonshire, comprising a general survey of the county, and a history of the Diocese of Peterborough: with separate [...], London: Whittaker & Co., Ave Maria Lane, 1849