Bythorn / Bierne / Bithorne / Byerne / Bytherne / Bythorne

Image copyright © Margaret Malt, 2013

Image and permission received via Lis Audigier 14 May 2013

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Purchase, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 July 2012 by David Purchase [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3019407] [accessed 15 May 2013

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Margaret Malt, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2013 by Margaret Malt

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Lis Audigier 14 May 2013

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Margaret Malt, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2013 by Margaret Malt

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Lis Audigier 14 May 2013

view of church interior - piscina

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Margaret Malt, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2013 by Margaret Malt

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Lis Audigier 14 May 2013

view of church interior - piscina - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Margaret Malt, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2013 by Margaret Malt

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Lis Audigier 14 May 2013

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Margaret Malt, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2013 by Margaret Malt

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Lis Audigier 14 May 2013

INFORMATION

FontID: 06864BYT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Main Street, Bythorn, Cambridgeshire PE28 0QL
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off the A14, about 10 km NNW of Kimbolton, 25 km W of Huntingdon, near the border with Nhants
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely [formerly Lincoln?]
Historical Region: Hundred of Leightonstone -- formerly Huntingdonshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century,
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful fo Margaret Malt for her photographs of church and font, and to Lis Audigier for her help in documenting this font
In Hunts (1851) and in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period [cf. VCH infra]. The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 3, 1936) notes: "The church is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey (1086), but there was evidently a stone church on the site in the 12th century, some of the stones of which are built into the existing walls [...] The church was largely rebuilt in 1870 and the chancel much restored in 1874. Some repairs were done to the tower and the west end of the south aisle in 1907. [...] The 16th-century font has a plain octagonal bowl with a chamfered lower edge, resting on an octagonal stem with a chamfered base. [...] The Eccles. and Archit. Topog. of Engl. (J. H. Parker), pt. v, Hunts, 1851, describes the font as 'Norman, on legs,' but this must be a mistake. [NB: the other possibility is that the basin may have been re-cut since; as a matter of fact it is quite irregular and the narrow sides could be the chamfered angles of a formerly-square basin (?) -- we have no information on the font of the original church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 22' 16.87" N, 0° 27' 0.17" W
UTM: 30U 673670 5805372

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; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2013-05-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907