Stanford / Stanford-on-Avon / Stanford-upon-Avon
Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2012
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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 - 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]
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]
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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]
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 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]
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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 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]
INFORMATION
Font ID: 14537STA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Stanford Road, Stanford, Northamptonshire NN6 6JP
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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]
Additional Comments: altered font (base is a modern replacement) -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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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.
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 626766 5807673
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.404594, -1.136529
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 24′ 16.54″ N, 1° 8′ 11.5″ W
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, p. 408