Wistow nr. Huntingdon / Kingestune / Kingston / Wystowe

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UB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the supporting columns

view of church exterior - northwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim Heaton, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2007 by Tim Heaton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/489398] [accessed 23 April 2012]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 06869WIS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [aka St. John the Evangelist's]
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: 1 Parsonage Street, Wistow, Cambridgeshire PE28 2QE
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located 7-8 km N of Huntingdon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely [formerly in the Diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Hurstingstone
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 2, 1932) notes: "The return in the Domesday Survey (1086) is entered under the name of Wistow [...] which was there assessed at 9 hides and had a priest and church and a mill [...] nothing now remains of this 11th-century building. Probably it fell into ruin, and was largely rebuilt during the abbacy of Robert Triaynel, Abbot of Ramsey (1180–1200) [...] The whole church, however, was again rebuilt in the first half of the 14th century. [...] The 13th-century octagonal font is supported on a central stem and two slender octagonal and two round shafts."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.412417, -0.121008
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 24′ 44.7″ N, 0° 7′ 15.63″ W
UTM: 30U 695802 5810810

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: 2012-04-23 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907