London No. 30 / Cornhill
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09899LON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1681
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(late), Stuart
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter upon Cornhill
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, southeast corner
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Site Location: Greater London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on Cornhill St., at Bishopsgate
Additional Comments: recycled font and cover: restored in 1988
Font Notes:
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Allen (1839?) notes: "The fon is contained in a pew below the western gallery; it is a plain basin of marble, with cherub's heads, &c, on a pillar of a similar form".
Described in Blatch (1995): "Font Made of marble, octagonal and with leaf decoration growing up the upper part of the stem. It also dates from 1681 but the cover is said to have escaped the Great Fire [1666] and therefore to be earlier. The font and its cover were both restored by the St,. Paul's Cathedral workshop in 1988 and have been placed under the bracket in the south-east corner where the font may previously have stood. The bracket may now be used to raise and lower the cover."
Described in Blatch (1995): "Font Made of marble, octagonal and with leaf decoration growing up the upper part of the stem. It also dates from 1681 but the cover is said to have escaped the Great Fire [1666] and therefore to be earlier. The font and its cover were both restored by the St,. Paul's Cathedral workshop in 1988 and have been placed under the bracket in the south-east corner where the font may previously have stood. The bracket may now be used to raise and lower the cover."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
LID INFORMATION
Date: pre-1666 [cf. FontNotes]
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes; bracket fixed to the church fabric in the southeast [counterweight system?]
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Allen, Thomas, The History and Antiquities of London, Wsetminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent, London: published by George Virtue, 26 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, [1839?], p. 450 / [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BVEGAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA717&lpg=RA1-PA717&dq=queenhithe+church+font&source=web&ots=9dzBGxXJDM&sig=mvPDHDDOyNJa-B_jKtBxJr4-Ny4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result#PPA371,M1] [accessed 23 July 2008]
- Blatch, Mervyn, Guide to London's churches (2. ed.), London: Constable, 1995, p. 156