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view of church exterior - northeast view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kokai, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 September 2005 by Kokai [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/55263] [accessed 24 May 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 14587TWY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Notes: Sheela-na-gig as one of the corbels on the west face of the church tower [www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/imagePopup/ed-nh-twywe/t23023.html] [accessed 5 May 2009]
Church Address: Lower Street, Twywell, Northamptonshire NN14 3AH
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A14, 5 km W of Thrapstone
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough [formerly in the diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: Hundred of Huxloe
Font Notes:
The Victoria County Histroy (Northampton, vol. 3, 1930) notes: "The main part of the fabric, comprising the tower, nave and the west portion of the chancel, is of the middle of the 12th century, but there is some reason for believing that the first church was of earlier date […] The font consists of a plain unmounted octagonal bowl of late 12th or early 13th century date, on a circular moulded plinth, and has a good flat Jacobean wood cover with central post and curved side pieces." Pevsner & Cherry (1973) do not mention the font itself: "Font cover. Jacobean, very pretty."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 663039 5807415
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.392672, -0.603894
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 23′ 33.62″ N, 0° 36′ 14.02″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century / Jacobean
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 437