Wollaston nr. Doddington / Wilauestone / Wilavestone / Wolaston / Wullaueston
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view of church exterior - west tower
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14600WOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century / 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: High St, Wollaston, Northamptonshire NN29 7SJ
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located SE of Doddington, 4 km S of Wellingborough, near the Bedforshire border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Higham Ferrers
Additional Comments: destroyed font?
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for this Wollaston [in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP9062/wollaston/], one of which mentions a priest but not a church, though there must have been one in it. The Victoria County History (Northampton, vol. 4, 1937) notes that the medieval church collapsed on 13 November of 1735: "Of the 14th-century structure only the tower and spire and north transept remained", the rest a re-building of 1737. "The font dates from 1737 and is of stone, with circular gadrooned bowl and swelled base." The 18th-century font is noted in Pevsner & Cherry (1973) [NB: the 11th-14th-century font is not mentioned in either source; it was probably destroyed in the 1735 collapse]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 659654 5791765
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 465