Brington

INFORMATION

FontID: 05153BRI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located 16-18 kms W of Huntingdon on the A14 (dir. Kettering)
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Described in Paley (1844) and in Bond (1908) simply as an oval font. Mee (1945) writes: "The font is probably very early Norman, its base contemporary with the church" [NB: the context is somewhat ambiguous in Mee, but it probably means that the base is 15th-century] Pevsner (1968) mentions only a "Font cover. Jacobean. Simple, conical, with a ball finial."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: oval
Basin Interior Shape: oval
Basin Exterior Shape: oval

LID INFORMATION

Date: Jacobean / 17th - 18th century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968