Bury nr. Peterborough / Biri / Bury cum Hepmangrove / Byri / Byrig / Byry
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 April 2006 by Rodney Burton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/153256] [accessed 20 April 2012]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06863BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [re-cut], Late Norman? / Transitional? [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Cross
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Cross
Church Address: Holy Cross Church Bury, Meadow Lane Bury Road, Bury, Cambs, PE26 2NS
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1040, just S of Ramsey, 18 km ESE of Peterborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Hurstingstone
Additional Comments: altered font: the originally square basin was re-cut into an octagon / re-cut font
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Transitional period [i.e., 1150-1200]. The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 2, 1932) notes: "An early 12th-century church which stood here probably consisted only of a chancel and nave; the east and west walls of the nave of this church survive. [...] At the west end of the aisle is the font dating from about 1200. The bowl was originally square, but the angles have been cut off to form an octagon. It stands on a drum pedestal resting on a square base." The VCH entry (ibid.) further notes: "A fragment of conventional ornament on one face of the bowl has been mistaken to represent the date MCL or MCCC (Cambs. and Hunts. Arch. Soc. Trans. i, 409)."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 696574 5813531
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.436577, -0.108064
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 26′ 11.68″ N, 0° 6′ 29.03″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square [re-cut to octagon]
REFERENCES
- 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. 203