Wrestlingworth / Wrastlingewurde / Wrestlingforth

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B01: design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled (with rose in the centre) - 8

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BU01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding

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LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - cinquefoiled arches - 8

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view of basin - interior

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01283WRE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Church Lane, Wrestlingworth, Central Bedfordshire SG19 2EU

Country Name: England

Location: Bedfordshire, East

Directions to Site: Located on the B1042, 3 km ESE of Potton, 10 km NE of Biggleswade

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

Historical Region: Hundred of Biggleswade

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S side of the nave

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The earliest building of which any portion remains [...] was enlarged in the early part of the thirteenth century by the addition of a south aisle to the nave [...] In the north wall is a single blocked twelfth-century light [...] The font at the west end of the nave has an octagonal bowl on a stem, and appears to be of fifteenth-century date, but the upper part of it has been repaired." [NB: we have no information on the font of the 12th-century church here]. The present font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides, the panels decorated with deeply-cut tetrafoil windows with a Tudor rose in the centre; the inner bowl of the basin is rounded and lead-lined, with a central drain; the chamfer of the underbowl has a large tetrafoil motif on each panel; the transition between the underbowl and the octagonal pedestal base is rather unsuccessful, a series of thin mouldings in the manner of a graded chamfer; the panels of the pedestal base have cinquefoil arches or niches, some of them damaged; the lower base is also octagonal and moulded; flat and plain cover, modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.110329, -0.162651

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 6′ 37.18″ N, 0° 9′ 45.55″ W

UTM: 30U 694287 5777107

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and plain

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-05-02 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907