Fletton

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06866FLE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1661-1662?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century / 17th century, Early English? / Jacobean?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Wikidata: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Margaret%27s_Church,_Old_Fletton,_Peterborough_-_geograph.org.uk_-_147475.jpg
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the southern suburbs of Peterborough
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire
Font Notes:
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, p. 203
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 247