Stanground / Standground / Stainground
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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
Font ID: 06859STA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Early English
Cognate Fonts: the font at Bainton (Nthants.)
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist - St. Michael & All Angels
Church Address: Church St, Stanground, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, PE2 8HQ
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
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 Notes:
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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, p. 203
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 16