Stotfold / Stodfald / Stolfalt / Stotfeld

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Results: 7 records

B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - in a square

Scene Description: probably four, alternating with four inscribed flowers

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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

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BU01: design element - motifs - panel

Scene Description: all around the underbowl chamfer

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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UB01: design element - architectural - niche or window - cinquefoiled - 8

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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

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01281STO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Road, off High Street and Regent Street, Stotfold, Bedfordshire, SG5 4NE
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
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 Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
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-. Accessed: 2012-05-11 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968