Helmdon

INFORMATION

Font ID: 14435HEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. May Magdalene
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17545470
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary Magdalene
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 7 km N of Brackley, 12 km SW of Towcester
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
The village web site [http://www.helmdon.com/parishchurch/church_history.htm] [accessed 13 April 2009] informs of a renovation of the 13th-14th century church in 1768-1769: "At the same time, 1769, the font was set up north of the central aisle in the west bay of the nave. Baker in the 1820s described the font as small and modern. The present one looks nineteenth-century but perhaps it is a little older and is the one which was set up in 1769. A gun-barrel was provided for that, presumably for its plug-hole." [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Drainage Notes: the drain pipe is said to have been a gun barrel