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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 January 2006 by Kokai [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/104869] [accessed 29 May 2012]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 14428DOD

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Address: Church Lane, Great Doddington, Northamptonshire, NN29 7TR

Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off the A45, SW of Wellingbororugh

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough

Historical Region: Hundred of Hamfordshoe

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the ca.-1140 church?)

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in the Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 4, 1937): "A church was built here during the first half of the 12th century [...] Of this church little is left but the upper part of the nave walls above the arcades and the lower part of the tower: the scalloped capital of a nook-shaft inserted in the wall near the south doorway appears to be c. 1140. [...] The 13th-century font has a plain circular bowl and short stem, on two circular steps. It has a late tall crocketed pyramidal oak cover." Pevsner & Cherry (1973) mention only the cover: "C15, but much re-done."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 655625 5793709

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 15th-century [restored]

Material: wood

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 233