Caversham No. 1
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06165CAV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter [orig. from St. Mary's Chapel?]
Font Location in Church: Inside St. Peter's now [found earlier buried in the Old Rectory Gardens]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter [St. Mary?]
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A4074 in the outskirts of Reading
Historical Region: listed often as Berkshire
Additional Comments: recycled font: modern base
Font Notes:
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Described in Tyrrell-Gren (1928: 37) as an old font, "a bowl circular on the inside whose outer surface has been worked into four convex sides between angle-shafts [...] erected upon a modern base of five pillars". David Nash's 'Royal Birkshire History' mentions that "a small Norman font or stoup, now in St. Peter's Church, was found buried in the Old Rectory Gardens and may have come from St. Mary's Chapel." [source: www.berkshirehistory.com/villages/caversham.html] [NB: Caversham is often listed as Berkshire but it is actually in Oxfordshire]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted?
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round?
REFERENCES
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 37