Earls Barton / Barton / Barton Yarles

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view of church exterior - door

Scene Description: said to be of Anglo-Saxon times
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 November 2005 by R Neil Marshman [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SaxonDoor.JPG] [accessed 30 May 2012]
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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2006 by kev747 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earls_Barton] [accessed 30 May 2012]
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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ChurchCrawler [Phil Draper], 2010
Image Source: digital photograph itaken August 2010 by ChurchCrawler [Phil Draper] [www.flickr.com/photos/churchcrawler/5042404516/] [accessed 30 May 2012]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 14406EAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, NN6 0JG
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the B573, 2 km N of Castle Ashby
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Hamfordshoe
Century and Period: 10th - 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman?
Font Notes:
The Victoria County History (Northamptonshire, vol. 4, 1937): "The church is of exceptional interest as possessing a late Saxon tower which is generally agreed to be both the finest existing specimen of pre-Conquest work [...] and the most noteworthy architectural monument of its period in England [...] The font dates from 1877 and is in the 13th-century style." [NB: the church itself goes back to the 10th century Anglo-Saxon period, but we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.265833, -0.753333
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 15′ 57″ N, 0° 45′ 12″ W
UTM: 30U 653310 5792983

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-04-02 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.