Rothwell nr. Kettering / Rodeuuelle / Rodewelle / Rowell (Nhants.)

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design element - architectural - column

Scene Description: at the angles of the basin

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design element - architectural - column - 6

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design element - motifs - diaper

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: with the font and cover partially visible in the foreground

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover partially visible in the centre aisle, towards the back

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14532ROT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity

Church Location: Squire's Hill, Rothwell, Nottinghamshire NN14 6BQ

Country Name: England

Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands

Directions to Site: Located SSE of Desborough, NW of Kettering, SE of Market Harborough

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough

Historical Region: Hundred of Rothwell

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 13th century [altered?], Early English [altered]

Church Notes: original church 1170?

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for this Rothwell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8181/rothwell/] [accessed 20 August 2015], neither of which mention cleric or church in it. A font here is noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Font. Hexagonal, C13, probably not in its original shape. A larger, higher and a recessed lower piece. Angle shafts with rings. Dog-tooth decoration." [NB: there is evidence of an early Norman church, but we have no information on the font of that church]. There is an interesting record of alternative baptisms at Rothwell. In Glass (1871), who informs of the founding of an Independent Church in Rothwell in 1656, and of recorded baptisms of that Puritan Church, both infant and adult, recorded in the years 1692 and 1699, among others [NB: the entries for those two years have dates and the names of the baptizands in Glass, who admits that: "Whether the baptism were by sprinkling or immersion, we are not informed, probably by the former, as we have no reason to believe that any convenience existed for immersion."]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.422169, -0.801196

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 25′ 19.81″ N, 0° 48′ 4.31″ W

UTM: 30U 649516 5810269

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat hexagonal base with four raised scroll ribs on it

REFERENCES

Glass, Norman, The Early history of The Independent Church at Rothwell, alias Rowell, in Northamptonshire, from the 3rd year of the Protectorate to the eath of Queen Anne, Northampton; London: Taylor & Son; E. Marlborough, 1871

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