Bedford No. 1

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Results: 7 records

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 May 2004 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/330036] [accessed 10 September 2015]

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view of font cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: alternating rosettes and round/ball (?) flowers

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the bases of the colonnettes of the base

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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design element - architectural - column - 8

Scene Description: clustered onto the broad central shaft

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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view of base

Scene Description: the old base starts below the moulded capitals of the colonnettes

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01260BED

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Paul

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Paul

Church Notes: VCH entry [cf. FontNotes] dates south doorway and aisle to 13thC

Church Address: St Paul's Square, Bedford MK40 1SJ

Site Location: Bedfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located 40 km WSW of Cambridge down the A428 [this church is located in St Peter's square]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

Historical Region: Hundred of Buckelowe

Additional Comments: composite font (the basin is 19th-century; the base 14th-century) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

Illustrated in a June 1838 drawing by Henry E.L. Dryden, now in the Sir Henry Dryden Collection, in Northamptonshire. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The font, which is in the south aisle, has a modern octagonal bowl resting on a 14th-century octagonal shaft and having small engaged columns at the angles and ball flowers and rosettes on the base." Noted in Pevsner (1968): "Font. Dec. Base with a little ballflower and fleuron decoration." The present font consists of an octagonal basin of the 19th century, an octagonal base with eight attached outer colonnettes, the lower base moulded and decorated with alternating ball flowers and rosettes, and a modern wooden cover of 1936.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 673325 5779123

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.1354, -0.4674

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 8′ 7.44″ N, 0° 28′ 2.64″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1936 / Modern

Material: wood

Notes: painted and gilded

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 186
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 47