Eye nr. Peterborough

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Results: 4 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - 8 arches
B02: design element - patterns - tracery
view of basin - detail
INFORMATION
FontID: 06789EYE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Matthew
Church Patron Saints: St. Matthew
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located ENE of Peterborough, in the Soke of Peterborough
Historical Region: formerly Northamptonshire?
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Font Notes: Click to view 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
Material:
no,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968