Frankton / Franchetone
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Results: 4 records
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/frankton---st-nicholas.html] [accessed 27 January 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/frankton---st-nicholas.html] [accessed 27 January 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/frankton---st-nicholas.html] [accessed 27 January 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Aidan McRae Thomson, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2012 by Aidan McRae Thomson [http://warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/frankton---st-nicholas.html] [accessed 27 January 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19683FRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Main Street, Frankton, Warwickshire CV23 9PB
Site Location: Warwickshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A423, NE of Marton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Coventry
Historical Region: Hundred of Marton [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Knightlow
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the early-13thC church here?)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Frankton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP4270/frankton/] [accessed 27 January 2015], neither of which mention cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Warwick, vol. 6, 1951) notes: "The earliest part of the church is the lower stage of the tower, which dates from the early 13th century; the rest of the church was rebuilt in the 14th century, and in the 15th century the upper part of the tower was rebuilt. [...] The font is modern and placed at the west end near the door; its circular basin stands on four attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases on a splayed octagonal base." [NB: we have no information on the font of the original early-13th century church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 610386 5798735
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.327817, -1.380143
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 19′ 40.14″ N, 1° 22′ 48.52″ W
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.