Stevington No. 1 / Stethintun / Stevyngton / Steynton / Stiuentone / Stiventone / Stivetone / Styventon

INFORMATION

FontID: 01256STE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 22 Church Road, Stevington, Bedford Borough MK43 7QB
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located just N of the A428, 6 km WNW of Bedford, between Carlton and Stagsden
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Willey
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
There is an entry for Stevington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9853/stevington/] [accessed 11 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it]. Cox & Harvey (1907) liast a baptismal font of the Early English period in this church. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The lower part of the tower is Saxon work, and there was doubtless a contemporary aisleless nave and chancel; but about 1320 a general rebuilding was begun from the east [...] The font, which is for the most part modern, has a bowl, quatrefoil on plan, resting on four detached shafts ranged round one that is octagonal, and these have 13th-century capitals and bases". [NB: we have no information on the font from the original Anglo-Saxon church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.1722, -0.5532
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 10′ 19.92″ N, 0° 33′ 11.52″ W
UTM: 30U 667316 5783014

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: quatrefoil (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-09-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907