Weston Favell / Weston Fauvelle / Westone nr. Northampton
Results: 3 records
B01: design element - motifs - floral - rosette
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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B02: symbol - shield
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
B03: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
INFORMATION
FontID: 14497WES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: High Street, Weston Favell, Northamptonshire, NN3 3JX
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
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 Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: the font at nearby Abington
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-. Accessed: 2009-04-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973