Holywell nr. St. Ives / Haliewell / Halywell / Holliwell cum Needingworth / Holywell with Needingworth

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the outer colonnettes of the late-13th century base

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view of basin

Scene Description: the modern basin

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: of the modern basin

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern, but damaged, basin on the medieval base

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06857HOL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Holywell Front, Holywell, Cambridgeshire, PE27 4TG
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located 3 km ESE of St. Ives, 10-12 km ESE of Huntingdon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Hurstingstone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 13th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com] for his photographs of this church and font.
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period, octagonal, standing on "small plain shafts". The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 2, 1932) notes: "the church and land held with it were given to Ramsey Abbey, probably in the 11th century, by Gode, the priest of Holywell. [...] Although mentioned in the Domesday Survey (1086) it is doubtful if anything earlier than the 13th century remains, to which date the chancel may be assigned. [...] The church was rather drastically restored in 1862 [...] The font has a modern bowl standing on a late 13th-century central and four smaller shafts, the latter with moulded caps and bases." [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the 13th-century basin, or on the font from the earlier, 11th-century church here]. The National Gazetteer of 1868 notes that the earlier chapel of St. James in Needingworth "has long disappeared".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 702144 5800662

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

The National Gazetteer: a Topographical Dictionary of the British Isles, London: Virtue & Co., 1868
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-04-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907