Clifton nr. Shefford / Cliftone / Cliftune / Clistone / Clistune

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - 16 arches

Scene Description: two arches per side

view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2010 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 01268CLI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Street, Clifton, Central Bedfordshire SG17 5EL
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located just W of the A6001, 2-3 km NW of Henlow, 3 E of Shefford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans [formerly in the diocese of Ely]
Historical Region: Hundred of Clifton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, beneath the tower arch
Century and Period: 13th century (early?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photograph of this church
Noted in Lysons (1806-1833): "Clifton has on each side two plain arches". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "There is no mention of the church of Clifton in the Domesday Survey and the first record appears in 1201 [...] The [present] building is a very interesting example of a small fourteenth-century church, c. 1320 [...] The font is older than any part of the building, having an octagonal bowl with two shallow-pointed arches on each face, and dates from the beginning of the thirteenth century" [which may tie in with the reported date of the earlier building ca. 1201 -- cf. supra]. Pevsner (1968) writes: "Font. C13 of the octagonal Purbeck type with two flat arches each side." The British Listed Buldings database [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-37808-church-of-all-saints-astwick] [accessed 26 April 2012] reports: "C13 octagonal font with paired pointed arches to each face, on late C19 pedestal."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 685059 5768902

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [chalk / Totternhoe stone?]
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-05-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968