Sandy / Sandeia / Saundeye / Sondeye

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view of church exterior - south view

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

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2010 by HitchinLookers [www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM9GG4_Font_St_Swithins_Church_High_Street_Sandy_Beds] [accessed 2 May 2012]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01278SAN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?) [base only] [composite font], Late Medieval

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Swithun

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Swithun [aka Swithin]

Church Address: High Street, Sandy, Bedfordshire, SG19 !AQ

Site Location: Bedfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located on the A1, 6 km NW of Biggleswade, 12-13 km E of Bedford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

Historical Region: Hundred of Biggleswade

Additional Comments: altered font? / composite font?

Font Notes: Click to view

Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The earliest mention that has been found of the church of Sandy is in 1240 [...] In 1291 the value of the church was £13 6s. 8d. [...] The whole church has been so much rebuilt and enlarged in modern times that little of the old fabric remains. [...] The font has an interesting late fifteenth-century base of clunch and a very rough bowl, which is impossible to date." The font consists of a round tapering basin raised on an octagonal pedestal base and an octagonal plinth. The wooden cover is round and almost flat, with a moulded top; modern.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 685003 5779055

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: type unknown

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