Yaxley nr. Peterborough

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 05710YAX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17527929
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just south of Peterborough
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire
Additional Comments: notorious font: a colt was baptized "Charles" [i.e., King Charles] by the Puritans -- MUST USE
Font Notes:
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, p. 275
  • Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Huntingdonshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1903, [unavailable]
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 370