Yaxley nr. Peterborough

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B01: design element - motifs - panel - 8

Scene Description: bordered with thin roll-moulding

INFORMATION

FontID: 05710YAX
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located just south of Peterborough
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Decorated
Noted in Kelly's Directory of Huntingdonshire (1903): "The font consists of an octagonal basin on a Decorated moulded stem". Listed in Bond (1908: 275) as a baptismal font in which "the Puritans baptized colts". Noted in Pevsner (1968): "Font. Octagonal, the panels simply bordered by a thin roll-moulding. This probably represents the late C13."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Huntingdonshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1903
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968