Barton No. 1 / Barton nr. Cambridge / Bertone
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the open door of the south portal visible on the left -- the four parts of the font (basin, stem, lower base and plinth) are probably from different periods
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font is visible at the afr end, left side, by the south entranceway
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery
Scene Description: with windows of different shapes
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05089BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin] [re-cut?] -- 13th - 14th century [base] [composite font], Medieval / composite
Cognate Fonts: the font at Rampton, also in Cambs.
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter [cf. FontNotes]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, near the S doorway, by the S side of the belfry arch
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: The church dates from the Late Decorated period
Church Address: Church Ln, Barton, Cambridgeshire CB23 7BD, UK
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located at the A603-B1046 junction, 5 km SW of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Wetherley
Additional Comments: recycled font / re-cut basin / composite font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for this Barton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4055/barton/] [accessed 16 May 2016], none of which mention cleric or church in it. A font here is listed in Paley (1844), and described in his Guide of the same year: "The font is a good plain octagonal basin, with Decorated tracery in the stem; it stands by the belfry arch". Noted in Bond (1908). Noted in the RCHM (Cambridgeshire, 1968), which reports that "the base of the font appears to be an inverted bowl; the upper bowl is an earlier one, refashioned in the 13th century, and was probably reused from the deserted village of Whitwell". Described in Pevsner (1970), with reference to the RCHM: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with blank arcading on the stem and plain bowl. (The stem may be another font, re-used. RCHM)". The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 5, 1973) notes: "Parts of the south wall of the chancel are from a building of c. 1100 which was extended eastward in the later 12th century. [...] Otherwise the existing building is structurally of the 14th century"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry. Stockner (1997) dates it to the 12th or 13th century, one of a group of "early font bowls set within bases of successors".
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 298847 5785327
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.181682, 0.057653
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 10′ 54.05″ N, 0° 3′ 27.55″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Apparatus: no
Notes: modern makeshift cover
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 89
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Cambridge, Woking; London: Printed in England for Her Majesty's Stationary Office by Unwin Brothers Unlimited, 1968, vol. 1: xlii, 14
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 11
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, The Ecclesiologist's guide to the churches within a circuit of seven miles round Cambridge, with introductory remarks, London; Cambridge: J. van Voorst; Metcalfe and Palmer, 1844, p. 22
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970, p. 299
- Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 20ff