Rothersthorpe / Reresthorp / Rethesthorpe / Rethresthorpe / Ritheresthorpe / Ruddisthorpe / Rytherthorpe / Thorpe / Throope / Throp / Thrupp / Torp / Trop Advocati / Troupe

The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 4, 1937) notes: "The 12th-century font and the sculptured crosshead noticed below point to a church of that period on the site, but no part of the existing fabric can definitely be assigned to so early a date […] The 12th-century font has a circular bowl ornamented with an arcade of intersecting round arches and with a cable moulding round the top. It formerly stood on a plain circular drum and two steps, […] but is now on a small roughly shaped pedestal and base." The VCH footnotes the entry: "Four. Brit. Arch. Assoc. (1846), 2. It is so shown in a drawing by Sir Henry Dryden dated June 1838, in the Northampton Public Library. The bowl is 2 ft. 6 in. diam. at top [actually 2.5], narrowing to about 2 ft. at the bottom, and is 17 in. high. [the measurements in Dryden are given as: 1.7 1/2 for one side, and 1.5 3/4 for the other side]" The drawing is probably one of the three (?) done by Dryden, one in 1838, the other in 1887-1890, now in the Sir Henry Dryden Collection, Northamptonshire; they show two very different aspects of the font; in the early drawing the font is tub-shaped, its original shape; the secont drawing shows the font has been altered cutting off the bottom and mounting it on a makeshift base made up of a short square stem and a three-arm lower base; the third drawing is much like the second but more schematic; the two drawings of the re-cut font include a full set of measurements]. The original full font appears to be monlithic, with the upper half decorated with intersecting arches, the lower half plain; the font is raised on a two-step irregular lower base made of multiple blocks; in the other two drawings the basin with its intersecting arcade is now raised on a short round stem and a triangular-shaped lower base. No font is mentioned in the entry for this church in Pevsner & Cherry (1973)