Fletton

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B01: design element - patterns - fluted

Scene Description: on four of the panels of the basin sides

INFORMATION

FontID: 06866FLE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located in the southern suburbs of Peterborough
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1661-1662?
Century and Period: 13th century / 17th century, Early English? / Jacobean?
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907: 203) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Early English period. Pevsner (1969) however writes: "Font. Probably of 1661-2. Octagonal, of plain panels, four of them just vertically fluted." [NB: date discrepancy -- to be resolved]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

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