Eye nr. Peterborough

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Results: 4 records

B01: design element - architectural - arcade - 8 arches

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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B02: design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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view of font and cover

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view of basin - detail

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06789EYE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Matthew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Matthew
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located ENE of Peterborough, in the Soke of Peterborough
Historical Region: formerly Northamptonshire?
Font Notes:
Mee (1945) writes: "14th century font with eight arches, each arch having below it a recess decorated with window tracery." Noted in Pevsner (1968): "Font. C14. Octagonal, on eight supports not set back. The spaces between the supports form recesses, and the decoration of the bowl is their ogee gables." Wooden font cover, modern, a stylised version of the old Jacobean eight-ribs-around-on-a-flat-base theme. Listed and illustrated in The Digital Atlas of England web site [www.viewbuildings.com]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945, [http://northamptoncastle.homeip.net/northampton/books/Arthur%20Mee.htm] [accessed 18 October 2006]
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 242