Water Newton

INFORMATION

Font ID: 06870WAT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Remigius
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Remigius of Reims [aka Remi, Rémi, Remy]
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A1, just W of Peterborough
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire
Font Notes:
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, p. 203
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 364