Stanground / Standground / Stainground

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Results: 3 records

BBL01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches

Scene Description: a partial carving

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UB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the supporting shafts of the base

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06859STA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist - St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: Church St, Stanground, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE2 8HQ
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Stanground is now a suburb of Peterborough, to the SE
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Norman Cross
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Early English
Cognate Fonts: the font at Bainton (Nthants.)
Described in Paley (1844) as a "beautiful though simple font [...] of Early English date", the base of which is "furnished with bold capitals and bases", and cites the font at Bainton (Nthants.) as cognate. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period, "supported by a cluster of shafts". [NB: C&H give the site as "Stainground"]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 688600 5826190

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; appears modern

REFERENCES

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844