Benefield / Banefield / Beddingfielde / Benefielde / Benefilde / Benetfel / Benifeld / Benifeud / Beningfelde / Beningfeud / Benyngfielde / Berifelde / Lower Benefield
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rod Warmer, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Rod Warner [www.picturesofengland.com/England/Northamptonshire/Lower_Benefield/pictures/1129041] [accessed 16 May 2012]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rod Warmer, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Rod Warner [www.picturesofengland.com/England/Northamptonshire/Lower_Benefield/pictures/1129040] [accessed 16 May 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14364BEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Causin Way, Benefield, Northamptonshire PE8 5AF
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A427, 5 km W of Oundle, 10 km E of Corby
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Polebrook
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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Whellan (1849) notes: "the font is of Caen stone, octagonal in form, and exceedingly rich." The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 3, 1930) notes: " The church [...] was in the gift of the lord of Benefield in 1225 [...] With the exception of the chancel, which is of 14th-century date, the whole of the church was rebuilt in 1847 [...] the font and pulpit, are modern." [NB: both references are likely to the replacement font of the mid-19th century renovation -- we have no information on the font of the original church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 666284 5818360
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak
Notes: modern cover with a phoenix (?) finial
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- 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. 754