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INFORMATION

FontID: 14539STR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Romwold [ aka Romwald's / Rumwald's / St. John the Baptist's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Rumwold of Buckingham [aka Rombout, Romwald, Romwold, Rumbald, Rumbold, Rumoalde, Rumwald / Runwald] / St. John the Baptist
Church Location: A509, Strixton, Northamptonshire NN29 7PA
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 2-3 km N of Bozeat, off the A509, between Wellingborough and Milton Keynes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Higham Ferrers
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: the CofE website [www.achurchnearyou.com/strixton-st-romwald/] [accessed 28 May 2012] gives the dedication as Romwold's; the St John's dedication appears to have been a 19thC attempt to change the dedication to the latter, but failed
Noted in Parker (1849) as "a rude columnar font" in this church. The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 1937) notes that the building was originally of the early-13th-century date (c. 1220), but "The font and pulpit are modern". Pevsner & Cherry (1973) do not mention a font but state that the church "was rebuilt in 1873 except for the W[est] wall". That is probably the date of the new font noted in the VCH above. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font of this church].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 658827 5790749

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-04-30 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Parker, John Henry, Architectural notices of the churches of the Archdeaconry of Northampton: Deaneries of Higham Ferrers and Haddon, London; Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1849
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973