Fenstanton / Fen Stanton / Fennystanton / Stanton Gisbrit de Gant / Stantone / Stantun / Staunton

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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

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BU01: design element - motifs - floral - Tudor flower - 4

Scene Description: on the lower sides of the underbowl chamfer, alternating with foliage motifs

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BU02: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: on the lower sides of the underbowl chamfer, alternating with Tudor flowers

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LB01: design element - architectural - window - Gothic - with trefoiled arches inside - 8

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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding

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view of basin - interior

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view of basin - interior

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view of church exterior - south view

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06873FEN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Church Street, Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire, PE28 9JS

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located on the A14, about 10 km ESE of Huntingdon (dir. Cambridge)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Toseland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 2, 1932) notes: "A church and priest are entered under Gilbert de Gant's manor of Stanton in the Domesday Survey (1086). [...] Although mentioned in the Domesday Survey (1086) nothing remains of this early church except a few stones reused in the walling. There was evidently a rebuilding in the first half of the 13th century [...] The font is modern, octagonal, with tracery panels in the sides." The VCH entry for this parish (ibid.) reports a holy-water stoup in the east wall; the wall itself is ca. 1300. The present baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin the panels of which are decorated with complex quatrefoil motifs [these can also be read as over-adorned crosses]; the underbowl has two volumes a plain rounded one at the top and a concave one below decorated with a Gothic floral or leaf motif on each side; the octagonal stem has an Ogee window with two trefoil arches in it on each panel; the inner well of the basin shows that this is a modern font, unless it was re-built at a later date; the lower base is moulded and rests on a narrow plinth that may have been trimmed from its original size; the flat wooden cover is decorated with metal reinforcements.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 699777 5798449

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: re-built inner well?

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-04-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907