Brampton / Brampton nr. Huntingdon
Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 1995
Image and standing permission received March 15, 2002
Results: 2 records
B01: design element - architectural - window - Gothic
Scene Description: several: square, saltire, etc., one on each of the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 1995
Image Source: www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk
Copyright Instructions: Image and standing permission received March 15, 2002
LB01: design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - 8
Scene Description: one on each side of the pedestal base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Fairweather, 1995
Image Source: www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk
Copyright Instructions: Image and standing permission received March 15, 2002
INFORMATION
FontID: 05741BRA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located just SW of Huntingdon, 25-30 km WWN of Cambridge
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: Image and added information courtesy of Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk] - photograph taken in 1995: the cover had been damaged by fire and later restored.
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in Pevsner (1968): "Font. Octagonal, with pointed quatrefoils, etc." Octagonal mounted baptismal font in stone; the basin sides have each a motif, roundels, saltire, windows, etc. The octagonal pedestal has a trefoil window on each side; the lower base is narrow, octagonal and graded with several mouldings. The font has a crown-shaped octagonal cover ornamented with pinnacled arrises and with floral motif on the sides of the slanted panels of the upper section; those of the lower section are vertical and plain. [Image and added information courtesy of Peter Fairweather [www.churchmousewebsite.co.uk] - photograph taken in 1995: the cover had been damaged by fire and later restored]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th cent.?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: yes; counterweight
Notes: [cf. Font notes]
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968