Ufford nr. Peterborough
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Results: 14 records
B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a window - 4
Scene Description: one on every other panel of the basin; the shields are blank; the windows have 12 indentations
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]
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B02: design element - architectural - window - Gothic - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: in pairs, on every other panel of the basin
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]
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BU01: design element - motifs - floral - Tudor rose - 4
Scene Description: one on every other angle of the chamfer
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]
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BU02: animal - head - 4
Scene Description: one on every other angle of the chamfer; they appear to be unidentified feline-looking beasts rather than specific animals
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]
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LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 8
Scene Description: one on each side of the pedestal base
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]
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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: all around, about 2/3 down the pedestal base
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]
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LB03: design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - 7
Scene Description: one on each of sven of the sides of the lower volume of the base, under the moulding [NB: the remaining side is where the "kneeling stone" connects]
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]
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LID01: cleric
Scene Description: as finial of the font cover
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]
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LID02: design element - patterns - crocketed
Scene Description: on the ribs of the cover
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Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]
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view of basin - underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Digital Atlas of England, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph in the Digital Atlas of England, 2005 [www.viewbuildings.com]
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view of basin - underbowl
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Digital Atlas of England, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph in the Digital Atlas of England, 2005 [www.viewbuildings.com]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph in the Digital Atlas of England, 2005 [www.viewbuildings.com]
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Digital Atlas of England, 2005
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05660UFF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located about 10 km WNW of Peterborough, south of the B1443
Historical Region: formerly Northamptonshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Paley (1844): "This is a Perpendicular Font, octagonal in shape, and still remains in good preservation. The sides of the bowl are panelled, and filled alternatively with plain shields and window tracery. It is supported underneath by heads and roses; the shaft and bases also are panelled. The principal peculiarity of the Font is the kneeling stone, of which it presents a very good, though uncommon example. The ancient cover is still remaining, having the ribs crocketted, and its place of a finial is surmounted by the figure of an ecclesiastic." [NB: Paley has this Ufford located in Northamptonshire; it is located in the "Soke of Peterborough", now in Cambridgeshire]. Noted in Pevsner (1968): "Font. Tall, octagonal, Perp[endicular], with shields, etc." The Digital Atlas of England has both font and cover dated to the 15th century.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (inside rim): 50 cm
Basin Depth: 30 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 115 cm
Notes on Measurements: Paley (1884: unpaged) [NB: Paley gives also the height of the cover: 120 cm]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th-17th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
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