Holywell nr. St. Ives / Haliewell / Halywell / Holliwell cum Needingworth / Holywell with Needingworth
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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 basin - interior
Scene Description: of the modern basin
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view of basin
Scene Description: the modern basin
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of font and cover in context
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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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06857HOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Holywell Front, Holywell, Cambridgeshire, PE27 4TG
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: altered font: was the basin replaced between 1907 and 1932? [cf. FontNotes] -- disappeared font? (the one from the 11thC church?)
Font Notes:
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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".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com] for his photographs of this church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 702144 5800662
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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, [cited in www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HUN/HolywellCumNeedingworth/index.html [accessed 20 April 2012]]
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 202-203