Northampton No. 6
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Results: 9 records
B01: inscription
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B02: design element - motifs - moulding
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BU01: design element - patterns - gadrooned
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the lower base
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding
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UB01: design element - motifs - scroll
Scene Description: forming the four sides of the stem
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior - west view
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view of font and cover in context
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14495NOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1680?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(late?)
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: George Row, Northampton, Northamptonshire, NN1 1DF
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: In the town centre: "in the centre of the town on an island site bounded on the north by Mercers' Row, on the south by George Row, on the west by the Drapery, and on the east by Wood Hill" [VCH...]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Borough of Northampton
Additional Comments: disappeared font? / destroyed font? (the medieval font) -- altered font (the 17th-century font)
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 3, 1930) notes: "The churches of St. Peter, the Holy Sepulchre and All Saints are all, as we have seen, probably as old as the Norman Conquest. [...] Bishop Hugh of Lincoln's charter [...] specifies nine by name: All Saints', St. Giles', St. Michael's, Holy Sepulchre, St. Mary's (by the Castle), St. Gregory's, [...] St. Peter's, St. Edmund's and St. Bartholomew's, as well as the chapel of St. Thomas. All these churches then were in existence by 1200 [...] It was originally a cruciform structure [...] the oldest parts of which appear to have dated from the 12th century. The destruction of the medieval fabric in the fire of 1675 was so complete that only the tower and a small crypt below the chancel were preserved. [...] The new church was opened in September 1680, but was not completed in its present form till the beginning of the 18th century. [...] The white marble chalice font was the gift in 1680 of Thomas Willoughby." Pevsner & Cherry (1973) note the present font: "Of marble, given in 1680, the base altered in 1888".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 643623 5789477
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.236944, -0.896667
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 14′ 13″ N, 0° 53′ 48″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: around the font side, under upper rim moulding
Inscription Text: "ARMIGERI ECLESIAE OMNIUM S[...]"
Inscription Source: cf. Image Area
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with carved top and knob handle
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 318