Little Addington / Edintone / Adington Parva / Adington Watervill

Parker (1849) reports two fonts in this church, which he would have visited before the restoration that took place in 1857; the font in use at the time, Parker describes as "late Perpendicular", and adds: "what appears to be the bason of a font, coeval with the earliest part of the church, is thrown aside among the rubbish at the base of the tower." [NB: Parker (ibid.) dates the fabric of the church "to the last quarter of the thirteent century"]. The Ecclesiologist (vol. 18, no. 122, October 1857: 315) reports on the restoration of this church and the decision to place the new font "to the west of the north-west tower pier"; there is no mention of the older fonts in this entry. The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 3, 1930) notes: " The greater part of the building belongs to the last quarter of the 13th century, covering perhaps the period c. 1280–1300", and there were additions and changes made through the 14th, 15th and 18th centuries. The VCH (ibib.) adds: "The church was restored and reseated in 1857, and there was a more extensive restoration in 1882–3 […] The font is modern, with octagonal panelled bowl." Not mentioned in Pevsner & Cherry (1973). [NB: we have no information on the present whereabouts of either of the two fonts reported in Parker [cf. supra]].