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INFORMATION
FontID: 06867OLD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parochial chapelry of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Street, Old Hurst, Cambridgeshire PE28 3AF
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located at the junction of the B1089-A141 , 8 km NE of Huntingdon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Hurstingstone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1300?
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Decorated
Font Notes:
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Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 2, 1932) notes: "The church or chapel was possibly built by Ralph Mowin who is said to have presented to it in the reign of Henry II (1154–89). [...] The thickness of the north wall suggests that it is of 12th-century date, but the church was practically rebuilt and slightly lengthened late in the 13th century. A considerable restoration took place in 1868 [...] The late 13th-century font has an octagonal bowl with tracery on each face, supported by a central stem with eight engaged shafts." Noted in Pevsner (168): "Font. Octagonal. Probably of c.1300. Blank windows with intersecting tracery on all eight sides."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 698100 5806178
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: 2012-04-20 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