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INFORMATION

Font ID: 14539STR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Romwold [ aka Romwald's / Rumwald's / St. John the Baptist's]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Rumwold of Buckingham [aka Rombout, Romwald, Romwold, Rumbald, Rumbold, Rumoalde, Rumwald / Runwald] / St. John the Baptist
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
Church Address: A509, Strixton, Northamptonshire NN29 7PA
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font?
Font Notes:
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-. 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, p. 191
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 419