Caversham No. 1

INFORMATION

FontID: 06165CAV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter [orig. from St. Mary's Chapel?]
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter [St. Mary?]
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A4074 in the outskirts of Reading
Historical Region: listed often as Berkshire
Font Location in Church: Inside St. Peter's now [found earlier buried in the Old Rectory Gardens]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Medieval / composite
Font Notes:
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