Weston Favell / Weston Fauvelle / Westone nr. Northampton
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14497WES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: the font at nearby Abington
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: High Street, Weston Favell, Northamptonshire, NN3 3JX
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Abington, to the E of Northampton, of which it is now part
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Spelhoe
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 4, 1937) notes: "The tower is of late-12th-century date, of Transitional Norman character […] The font is of 15th-century date, with octagonal panelled bowl, similar to that at Abington". Described in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicualr], with motifs such as rosette, shield, large leaves."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 647039 5791030
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 348