Newton Bromswold / Neuuentone / Newenton / Neweton / Newnton / Niwetone / Nywetona

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 14493NEW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by the S door
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: 25 Church Ln, Newton Bromswold, Rushden NN10 0SR, UK
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located NE of Higham Park, 3 km E of Rushden, near the county border with Bedfordshire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Higham Ferrers
Additional Comments: unfinished font: the tracing for the carving on its sides was reported ca. 1849 by Parker [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
There are two entries for Newtom [Bromswold] [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP9965/newton-bromswold/] [accessed 20 August 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Parker (1849) writes: "On entering, the font, standing to the south against the westernmost nave-pier is, as it should be, the first object that presents itself to the eye. It is a plain octagon, but traces of a pattern for carving are visible on its sides. The cover is rude and heacy, but appears to be original." The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 4, 1937) notes: "The church appears to be a 14th-century rebuilding of a 13th-century fabric, little or nothing of which remains architecturally […] The church was restored in 1879 […] The 14th-century font has a plain octagonal bowl moulded on the underside, stem with incised tracery on six of its eight sides, and moulded plinth: there is a later pyramidal oak cover with battlemented edge and crocketed angles." Pevsner & Cherry (1973) note the font cover as "simple, Jacobean", but not the font itself.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 667612 5794880

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century? / Jacobean
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Gardner, Samuel, A Guide to English Gothic Architecture (illustrated by numerous drawings & photographs), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1925, Northampton, vol. 4: 27-29 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66309] [accessed 22 April 2009]
  • Parker, John Henry, Architectural notices of the churches of the Archdeaconry of Northampton: Deaneries of Higham Ferrers and Haddon, London; Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1849, p. 174
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 313