Blakesley

INFORMATION

Font ID: 14363BLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1300?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17545509
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6.5 km WNW of Towcester, 20 km from Northampton
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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, p. 514 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=dhAHAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA442&lpg=RA1-PA442&dq=aynho+church+font&source=bl&ots=Trdc4a8vGv&sig=Ev4eeBfJWWwb64uB3bddAOSSxVI&hl=en&ei=uBzJSfGUBIjOMpCb-ekD&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result#PPR1,M1] [accessed 24 March 2009]