London No. 42 / Holborn
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10063LON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Chapel of St. Etheldreda
Church Patron Saints: St. Etheldreda [aka Audrey, Æðelþryð, Æþelðryþe, Æthelthryth, Ediltrudis]
Country Name: England
Location: Greater London, South East
Directions to Site: The Chapel is located in Ely Place, off Charterhouse St. near Holborn Circus and the junction of Holborn with Farringdon
Font Location in Church: Reported in this chapel ca. 1908
Century and Period: 10th - 11th century, Pre-Conquest
Font Notes:
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A baptismal font "supposed to be of Saxon workmanship" is mentioned in Campbell's 'The Passer by in London' (1908) [source: www.oldandsold.com/articles06/london-54.shtml], that was "to the left of the main south door" in St. Ethelreda's Church [or chapel], the prayer site at Ely Place, the site of the Palace of the Bishops of Ely. [cf. Index entry for London No. 28, St. Mary Aldermary, another church in which a Saxon font is reported in earlier times]. St. Etheldreda's does not appear in Stow's 'Remarks on London' (1722) does not mention St. Etheldreda's, but it does mention "Elyhouse Chapel, upon Holbourn Hill".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
REFERENCES
Campbell, William Sidney, The 'Passer by' in London: a Tribute to Wren, Gibbons & John Stow, with Some Romance and History of the Old City, London: Chapman & Hall, 1908
Stow, Wiliam, Remarks on London, Being an Exact Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, Borough of Southwark, and the Suburbs and Liberties Contiguous to them [...], London: Printed for T. Norris and H. Tracy, 1722