Rockingham

Results: 2 records

INFORMATION

Font ID: 14530ROC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1669
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Restoration
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Leonard
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17542579
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The church is located away from the village, below the N courtyard of Rockingham Castle. Rockingham is located on the A6003, just N of Corby
Font Notes:
Described in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Dated 1669. Of the oddly bleak kind of so many of the fonts of the 1660s. Big volutes, a heart, etc."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 388