Edworth

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01296EDW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. George [redundant]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. George
Church Notes: some 14thC figural mural painting has survived [cf. VCH entry] -- church decalred redundant in 1974; in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust since 1976
Church Address: Edworth, Central Bedfordshire SG18 8QX
Site Location: Bedfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A1, 5 km SE of Biggleswade, 7-8 km N of Letchworth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Biggleswade
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original 12thC church?)
Font Notes:
Noted in Lysons (1806-1833): "Edworth font is enriched with quatrefoils, roses, and shields". Gorham (1824) notes: "The font is octagonal, and elegant. Its eight faces contain quatrefoils and shields, on one of which is a cross, on another, the instruments of crucifixion." The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "No reference is made to Edworth church in the Domesday Survey, the first mention that has been found of it is its grant by Roger Burnard between 1175–81 to the priory of St. Neots. [...] The plan of the nave is probably that of a thirteenth-century church, or possibly earlier, but there are no details in position from which a definite date can be deduced. The oldest piece of masonry is a pillar piscina at the east end of the north aisle, of the end of the twelfth century. [...] At the west end of the nave is an octagonal fifteenthcentury font, the sides of the bowl having cusped panelled sides, all varying; the stem bears four shields, one with emblems of the passion, and another with a cross; the other two are plain." Pevsner (1968) writes: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular]. With big flowers and shields against the underside and tracery, quatrefoils, etc. against the bowl."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 690682 5770361
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.051, -0.219
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 3′ 3.6″ N, 0° 13′ 8.4″ W

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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Gorham, George Cornelius, A supplement to the history and antiquities of Eynesbury and St. Neot's, in Huntingdonshire, London: Printed by Thomas Davison, For Harding, Mavor, and Lepard (Lackington's), 1824, p. cxii
  • 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, vol. I: p. 31
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 83