Orton nr. Kettering

INFORMATION

FontID: 14504ORT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints [closed in 1964]
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located near Kettering
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, under the S arcade, opposite the entranceway
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Church Notes: [NB: the church itself was closed in 1964 and has been used by The Orton Trust: "The Orton Trust was founded in 1968 with the aim of encouraging the traditional stonemasonry skills used in the restoration and conservation of historic buildings. Its activities are based in a redundant church at Orton (formerly a chapelry of Rothwell), and a lecture room nearby, both buildings being near Kettering in Northamptonshire. The Trust made a further contribution to the re-use of redundant churches, when in 1977 it acquired St Peter's, Little Oakley, near Corby, which it leases at present to a small craft workshop."] [source: http://www.ortontrust.org.uk/aboutus.htm [accessed 24 April 2009]]
Font Notes:
Noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Font. Circular, with four faces -- human and animal -- like knobs. Is it C13?". "12thc. font decorated with human and animal heads."

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973