Warkton / Warkyngton / Werchinetone / Werkenetone / Werketon / Wotton
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B01: design element - motifs - knob - 4
Scene Description: square blocks at 90-degree angles
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken in 2010 by Dragontree [http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/8250cc96-05cc-415e-b74d-0acf30c2c552.JPG] [accessed 24 May 2012]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2011 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2547009] [accessed 24 May 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2011 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2548954] [accessed 24 May 2012]
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view of font
Scene Description: notice the carved modern base; only the upper piece, the basin, is original [cf. FontNotes]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14536WAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Edmund
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]
Church Address: off Pipe Lane, Warkton, Northamptonshire NN16 9XH
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km ENE of Kettering
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough [formerly in the diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: Hundred of Huxloe
Additional Comments: altered font / now on a modern base
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 3, 1930) notes: "The nave arcades are of two bays: they appear to have been originally of the latter part of the 12th century, but have been very much restored […] The font consists of a shallow octagonal bowl shaped from the square, set on a modern stem." Not mentioned in Pevsner & Cherry (1973). The CRSBI (2008) entry for this church notes: "The chancel was restored in 1981. The 13thc. font was discovered at that time in a field nearby." The new base consists of an upper square volume raised on a central shaft and four slender colonnettes decorated with leaf capitals and moulded bases, on a square lower base and narrow plinth.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 657207 5809059
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.409144, -0.688746
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 24′ 32.92″ N, 0° 41′ 19.49″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal-to-square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal, re-cut from square
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.