Wistow nr. Huntingdon / Kingestune / Kingston / Wystowe

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view of church exterior - northwest view

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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

Font ID: 06869WIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [aka St. John the Evangelist's]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: 1 Parsonage Street, Wistow, Cambridgeshire PE28 2QE
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared fonts? (the ones from the 11thC and 12thC?)
Font Notes:
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

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

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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 203