Farthingstone

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Image Source: digital photograph in A Church Near You [http://www.achurchnearyou.com/image.php?id=4817] [accessed 7 April 2009]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 14423FAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [restored in the mid-19th century], Medieval [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A5, 5 km SW of Weedon-Beck
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
Noted in the Lambfold Benefice web site [http://www.beneficeofbamf.f9.co.uk/Farthingstone.html] [accessed 7 April 2009]: "The font is 14th century and is of plain stone. It was thoroughly restored and reseated in 1852." The font consists of a plain octagonal basin with slightly tapering sides, raised on a square-to-octagonal base which is probably modern. [NB: there could have been an earlier font in the late-Norman church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal