Toseland / Tholeslund / Toleslund / Touleslund / Toulislond / Touseland / Towesland
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: Digital photograph taken in 2005 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1 July 2005)
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2011
Image Source: Digital photograph taken in 2011 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: Digital photograph taken in 2005 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1 July 2005)
INFORMATION
FontID: 09842TOS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church [or Chapel] of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael [St. Mary's? [cf. ChurchNotes]]
Church Location: High Street, Toseland, Cambridgeshire, PE19 6RX
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A428, 8 km NE of St. Neots
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely [formerly in the Diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: formerly in Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Toseland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, S side, by the entrance
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century [re-cut]? / 19th century, Medieval? / Modern?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photograph of this font.
Church Notes: The C of E website [www.achurchnearyou.com/toseland-st-michael/] [accessed 26 April 2012] gives the dedication as St. Michael's. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 has church dedication as St. Mary's [p. 380 / www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=51351] a[[ccessed 26 April 2012]. So does the National Gazetteer of 1868 [cited in /www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HUN/Toseland/ [accessed 26 April 2012]]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 2, 1932) notes: "The church, which is a chapelry to Great Paxton, was apparently entirely of mid-12th-century date [...] In 1873 it was thoroughly restored, and the chancel rebuilt." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry, but the register of baptisms starts 9 December 1702, with all pre-1702 baptisms recorded in the registers at Great Paxton's church. The present baptismal font in this church consists of a cylindrical basin with a round underbowl, raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base; flat and plain font cover, modern. [NB: the font appears to be an old one, perhaps 13th-century, re-cut and/or re-tooled at a late date -- otherwise the font is modern].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 692495 5792591
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-04-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.