Little Harrowden / Harewedone / Hargedone / Little Harudone

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/534627] [accessed 31 May 2012]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2007 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/534626] [accessed 31 May 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 14459HAR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 2 School Lane, Little Harrowden, Northamptonshire NN9 5BA

Country Name: England

Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located just N of Great Harrowden, 5 km NNW of Wellingborough

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough [formerly in the diocese of Lincoln]

Historical Region: Hundred of Orlingbury

Date: ca. 1195?

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Transitional

Church Notes: formerly a chapel of ease to Gt. Harrowden

Font Notes: Click to view

The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 4, 1937) notes: "The oldest part of the building is the main south doorway, which dates from c. 1195 […] The altar rails are of the 18th century, and the font is late in the same period." The '5Churches' on-line guide (2005) to Little Harrowden St. Mary's [www.5churches.org.uk/additionalfiles/littleHarrowdenGuide.pdf] [accessed 31 May 2012] notes: "The font dates from the 19th Century and has an oak font cover dedicated as a War Memorial in 1950." [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 654532 5800698

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-04-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.