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Results: 2 records

B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: several

BU01: design element - motifs - foliage

INFORMATION

FontID: 06860STU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: 8 Church Way, the Stukeleys, Cambridgeshire PE28 4BQ
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located on the B1043, 5 km NW of Huntingdon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Hurstingstone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1500?
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as "a good Decorated font [...], with quatrefoils on the bowl and foliage beneath". The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 2, 1932) notes: "The church mentioned in the Domesday Survey (1086) was probably of timber, and Henry of Huntingdon (the archdeacon) is recorded to have built (i.e., rebuilt) it in the 12th century. [...] The font, c. 1500, has a panelled octagonal bowl on an octagonal stem and base." In Pevsner (1968). The VCH entry for this church (bid.) further notes: "The bowl of a 13th-century font probably from this church, at one time lying derelict on the Manor Farm, has been re-erected in Kimbolton Church." [cf. Index entry for Kimbolton for that early font]. [NB: we have no information from the original font of the 11th- or 12th-century churches here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 689565 5803614

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-04-23 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968