Braunston nr. Daventry / Brandestone

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view of basin

Scene Description: the very irregular pieces of the damaged basin

Image Source: digital photograph 2015 by Anne Parker Tyler, All Saints', Braunston

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view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph 2015 by Anne Parker Tyler, All Saints', Braunston

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view of basin - rim - detail

Scene Description: the remaining anchorage points of the old cover

Image Source: digital photograph 2015 by Anne Parker Tyler, All Saints', Braunston

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view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph 2015 by Anne Parker Tyler, All Saints', Braunston

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2008 by Ian Rob [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/842683] [accessed 28 July 2015]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 February 2011 by Ian Rob [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2284275] [accessed 28 July 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the new font in the foreground, on the right (south) side

Image Source: [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/678/] [accessed 28 July 2015]

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view of font

Scene Description: the 19th-century Victorian font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2008 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/3028277358/] [accessed 28 March 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission + Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 27 March 2009]

view of font

Scene Description: the old Norman font, now disused

Image Source: digital photograph 2015 by Anne Parker Tyler, All Saints', Braunston

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14375BRA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [aka All Hallows]

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: 71 High St., Braunston, Daventry, Northamptonshire NN11 7HR, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1788 890298

Country Name: England

Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located off the A45, between Rugby and Daventry, by the Warwickshire border

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough [previously in the dioceses of Dorchester and Lincoln]

Historical Region: Hundred of Gravesend

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Anne Parker Tyler, churchwarden at Braunston All Saints', for her photographs and information on the old font. We are also grateful to Walwyn, of Midland Churches [http://professor-moriarty.com/moriarties/midland_churches], for his photographs of the modern font

Church Notes: medieval church demolished 1848; restored by Butterfield 1874

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for this Braunston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5366/braunston/] [accessed 28 July 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Kelly's 1890 directory entry for this Braunston [transcribed by Richard Lane in GENUKI [www.kellner.eclipse.co.uk/genuki/NTH/Braunston/] [accessed 27 March 2009] mentions only the new font, "of rich Devonshire and Derbyshire marble". The old font here is noted and illustrated in the CRSBI entry (2015): "The font is use is a 19thc. affair of coloured marbles, but a damaged and unusable Romanesque font is also kept inside the church […] an unlined cylindrical bowl of grey sandstone with slight traces of cable moulding at the upper rim; the entire bowl broken in two around its circumference, low down. It stands on an equally eroded cylindrical pedestal of coursed stones." The Parish web site [www.allsaintsbraunston.org.uk/] [accessed 27 March 2009] informs: "Braunston has had its own church since Norman times. However, the only surviving part of the first church on the site is the restored Norman font with worn rope-moulding around the top"; the same source informs of the renovations in 1879-1880: "A new font in Derbyshire and Devon marble with white Sicilian marble inlays was placed by the crossing at the back of the church".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.290418, -1.214111

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 17′ 25.51″ N, 1° 12′ 50.8″ W

UTM: 30U 621802 5794842

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 8.5 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 53 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm*

Basin Total Height: 43 cm*

Height of Base: 35 cm [calculated]

Font Height (less Plinth): 78 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2015)

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2009-03-27 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973