Water Newton

INFORMATION

FontID: 06870WAT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Remigius
Church Patron Saints: St. Remigius of Reims [aka Remi, Rémi, Remy]
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located on the A1, just W of Peterborough
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907: 203) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Decorated period. Pevsner (1968), however, notes: "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal".

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