Wisbech St. Mary No. 2

INFORMATION

FontID: 05974WIS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [earlier a chapelry of Wisbech]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 1 Church Road, Wisbech St Mary, Cambridgeshire PE13 4ST
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located on the A47, 5 km SW of Wisbech
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Wisbech
Font Location in Church: [cf. fontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Kelly's directory of this county for 1929 notes a stoup in the south porch [cf. Index entry for Wisbech St. Mary No. 1 for "the remains of an ancient font" in the same porch]. English Heritage [Listing NGR: TF4197108142] (1952) notes: "C14 holy water stoup." The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 4, 2002) notes: "The inner doorway is modern and mostly of plaster, and probably dates from the 1840 restoration. There is a mutilated stoup and a niche in the wall above it."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.652419, 0.096986
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 39′ 8.71″ N, 0° 5′ 49.15″ E
UTM: 31U 303639 5837562

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-04-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1929