Church Brampton / Brampton

INFORMATION

FontID: 14390BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph
Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km NNW of Northampton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Font Notes:
Lewis (1831) reports: "The church is partly in the decorated, and partly in the later, style of English architecture, and contains a large circular font". Noted in Parker (1849): "The font is a paraboloid resting on a cylindrical shaft with plain mouldings."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831
Parker, John Henry, Architectural notices of the churches of the Archdeaconry of Northampton: Deaneries of Higham Ferrers and Haddon, London; Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1849