Stanford / Stanford-on-Avon / Stanford-upon-Avon

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Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2012

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Results: 9 records

design element - patterns - tracery - varied

Scene Description: on the east, northeast and southeast sides of the font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Walwyn, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 14 March 2009 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/3427056081/] [accessed 1 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission + Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 27 March 2009]

design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery

Scene Description: on the west, northwest and southwest sides of the basin; each slightly different from the other
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 14 April 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/7191316602/in/album-72157629736943440/] [accessed 25 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/smeeton-westerby-christ-church/] [accessed 25 August 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/smeeton-westerby-christ-church/] [accessed 25 August 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover at the back
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Walwyn, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2009 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/3427056081/] [accessed 1 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission + Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 27 March 2009]

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Jones, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Christopher Jones [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk/smeeton-westerby-christ-church/] [accessed 25 August 2015]
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view of font and cover - east side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Walwyn, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 14 March 2009 by Walwyn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/overton_cat/3427056081/] [accessed 1 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission + Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/] [accessed 27 March 2009]

view of font and cover - west side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 14 April 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/7191316602/in/album-72157629736943440/] [accessed 25 August 2015]
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view of font and cover in context - west side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 April 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [www.flickr.com/photos/amthomson/7191316602/in/album-72157629736943440/] [accessed 25 August 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 14537STA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Stanford Road, Stanford, Northamptonshire NN6 6JP
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located in the Daventry district, near the border with Leicestershire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Leicester
Historical Region: Hundred of Guilsborough [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Walwyn, of Midland Churches [http://professor-moriarty.com], to Christopher Jones, of Leicestershire Churches [www.leicestershirechurches.co.uk], and to Aidan McRae Thomson for their photograph of this church and font
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Stanford [-on-Avon] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5878/stanford-on-avon/] [accessed 25 August 2015]; it mentions a priest, but not a church in it, though there probably was one here. A font here is noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "C14 with simple tracery patterns." Leicestershire Churches notes: "The west end of the church has two great monuments and the 14th century font centered in front of the tower arch and the organ gallery above." The font consists of an octagonal basin with varied tracery patterns on the vertical sides; flat underbowl; octagonal pedestal base with mouldings at top and bottom; modern; round plinth. The wooden cover is flat and plain; modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.404594, -1.136529
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 24′ 16.54″ N, 1° 8′ 11.5″ W
UTM: 30U 626766 5807673

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: square, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

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