Thurning nr. Oundle / Terning / Terninge / Terringes / Thernynge / Thiringez / Thirning / Thorning / Torning / Torninge
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
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LB02: design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-thurn.html] [accessed 16 May 2012]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Will Lovell, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 August 2006 by Will Lowell [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/230051] [accessed 16 May 2012]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CRSBI, 2008
Image Source: B&W photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-thurn.html] [accessed 16 May 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 14585THU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Location: Winwick Road, Thurning, Northamptonshire PE8 5RF
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 9 km SE of Oundle [NB: the civil parish was divided into two counties (Nhants & Huntingdon) but the whole is now in Nhants]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough [formerly in the diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Polebrook
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 13th century (early?) [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 3, 1936) notes: "The earliest church of which there is evidence was built in the first half of the 12th century [...] The 13th-century font has an octagonal bowl on a circular central and four octagonal angle shafts, the latter with moulded bases, one of them being an inverted carved capital." In the VCH entry for Thurning, (Northampton, vol. 3, 1930) the font at St. James' church is noted as: "ancient and has a plain octagonal bowl" [NB: the VCH notes: "The [civil] parish of Thurning was formerly partly in Northamptonshire and partly in Huntingdonshire (Leightonstone Hundred), the church being in the latter county."]. The font is noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "The angle colonnettes of the font are possibly reused. Originally, they may have comprised two octagonal shafts, each with an attic base and a carved capital. These elements probably date from c.1180-1200, while the font to which they now belong is clearly later."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.432584, -0.404348
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 25′ 57.3″ N, 0° 24′ 15.65″ W
UTM: 30U 676455 5812322
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 57 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 72 cm*
Basin Total Height: 35 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-05-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-05-05 00:00:00. 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. Accessed: 2012-05-16 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973