Piddington / Pedinton / Pidentone / Pydington

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the bases of the clusterred colonnettes of the base

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14521PID
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [aka St. Mary]
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Church Road, Piddington, Northamptonshire, NN7 2DE
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 9 km SSE of Northampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Wymersley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1280-1290?
Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Early English
There is an entry for this Piddington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8054/piddington/] [accessed 29 November 2016]; it mentions a priest but not a church in it, though there probably was one there. The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 4, 1937) notes: "The building belongs generally to c. 1280–90, but has been very extensively restored and in part rebuilt […] The font has a plain octagonal lead-lined bowl on eight clustered keel-shaped shafts with moulded bases and is of late-13th-century date." Not mentioned in Pevsner & Cherry (1973)

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 648505 5783666

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak
Notes: octagonal platform with round top; on it, four scroll ribs at 90-degree angles; finial; appears modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-04-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.