Church Brampton / Brampton

INFORMATION

Font ID: 14390BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Botolph
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17542855
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km NNW of Northampton
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, p. 234
  • 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, p. 281