Stotfold / Stodfald / Stolfalt / Stotfeld
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B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - in a square
Scene Description: probably four, alternating with four inscribed flowers
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stotfold Parish, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [www.stotfoldchurch.org.uk/Baptisms.htm] [accessed 10 May 2012]
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B02: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a square
Scene Description: probably four, alternating with four inscribed blank shields
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stotfold Parish, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [www.stotfoldchurch.org.uk/Baptisms.htm] [accessed 10 May 2012]
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BU01: design element - motifs - panel
Scene Description: all around the underbowl chamfer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stotfold Parish, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [www.stotfoldchurch.org.uk/Baptisms.htm] [accessed 10 May 2012]
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stotfold Parish, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [www.stotfoldchurch.org.uk/Baptisms.htm] [accessed 10 May 2012]
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UB01: design element - architectural - niche or window - cinquefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stotfold Parish, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [www.stotfoldchurch.org.uk/Baptisms.htm] [accessed 10 May 2012]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Edwards, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 April 2009 by Robert Edwards [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1280058] [accessed 12 May 2012]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stotfold Parish, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [www.stotfoldchurch.org.uk/Baptisms.htm] [accessed 10 May 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01281STO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Road, off High Street and Regent Street, Stotfold, Bedfordshire, SG5 4NE
Site Location: Bedfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located at the A1/M1, just N of Letchworth, 5 km NW of Baldock, 10 km SE of Biggleswade
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans [formerly in the diocese of Ely]
Historical Region: Hundred of Clifton
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. In Pevsner (1968) as a Perpendicular font decorated with quatrefoils. In the English Heritage site [http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1113866] [accessed 10 May 2012]: "C14 octagonal font with carved quatrefoil panels."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 690205 5766668
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal pyramidal, with carved surfaces and floral finial
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. 150