King's Cliffe / King's Cliff / King's Clive / Kings Cliff / Kings Cliffe / Kingscliffe
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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle
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B02: design element - motifs - circle
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B03: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle
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B04: design element - motifs - circle
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B05: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle
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B06: design element - motifs - circle
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B07: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle
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B08: design element - motifs - circle
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view of basin and cover
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2011
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2011 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of font
Scene Description: ca. 1844; note the octagonal pedestal base replacement; not the original one
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Image Source: engraving of a drawing by Orlando Jewitt, in Paley (1844)
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view of font cover
Scene Description: the old cover
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Saxonfenken, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2007 by Saxonfenken [www.flickr.com/photos/saxonfenken/2965470122/] [accessed 13 May 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01732KIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in th S side of the nave, nearly opposite the S entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Hall Yard, King's Cliffe, Peterborough PE8 6XQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1780 479249
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 10 km S of Stamford, 14 km NE of Corby, 20 km W of Peterborough, in the Soke of Peterborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: formerly in Huntingdonshire
Additional Comments: altered font: in 1844 the basin was sitting on an octagonal replacement base; a modern base along the lines of the original one is now in place
Font Notes:
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Cox (1907) notes this as one of the best instances of 13th-century English fonts. An engraving of a drawing of this font by Orlando Jewitt iappears in Paley (1844), who describes the font as "strong and massive", shows a cauldron-shaped basin ornamented with eight circles, four plain and four with quatrefoil motif, alternatively; the basin rests on a tower-like octagonal base and the plinth is octagonal as well. Noted in Mee (1945) among the "fine old possessions of the church [...] The font is 700 hundred years old. Swinging on a chain above, from a pulley in the roof, is its exceptionally fine 14th century cover, its eight sides have unique carving, four with emblems of the Evangelists below open tracery, the other four having a lily in relief, a rose of Sharon, a vine, and a landscape with trees, rocks, river, and a many-rayed sun; each has a label with an appropriate Bible verse in Latin." Described in Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "C14. Rounded with four plain raised medallions and four with quatrefoils." The cauldron-shaped basin incorporates on its underbowl four double mouldings at 90-degree angles, which must have originally been intended to attach to four outer colonnettes; a broader shaft would have fitted in the centre. At Paley's time (ca. 1844), however, the font was raised on an octagonal tower-like base which made the font look extremely odd; at some point since that base was replaced by one that replicates the original one, a broad central shaft and four slender colonnettes ; a square lower base has been added with raised bases for the five columns. The octagonal plinth seen in Paley's illustration has also been replaced by one of the same shape as the old one but lower and wider, with kneeling stone. One of the sides of the font appears to have been cut or trimmed off.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 668342 5826480
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.5623, -0.5164
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 33′ 44.28″ N, 0° 30′ 59.04″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 10 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm*
Basin Depth: 28.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 41.5 cm*
Height of Base: 53.5 cm* [the octagonal base]
Font Height (less Plinth): 95 cm* [on the octagonal base]
Notes on Measurements: * [Paley (1844)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 14th-century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: yes; pulley
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 211
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, [unpaged]