Bedford No. 2

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design element - patterns - tracery - quatrefoiled

Image Source: digital photograph in Bedfordshire Parish Churches [www.bedfordshireparishchurches.co.uk/churches013001.jpg] [accessed 10 September 2015]

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design element - patterns - tracery - varied

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symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - in a circle

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view of church exterior - north view

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10622BED

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter de Merton [aka St. Peter de Merton with St Cuthbert / St. Peter's-in-the-Fields]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter [dedication to St. Cuthbert added in 1974]

Church Location: De Parys Ave., Bedford, UK MK40 2TX, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1234 354543

Country Name: England

Location: Bedfordshire, East

Directions to Site: Located on the north side of St. Peter's Green

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

Historical Region: Hundred of Buckelowe

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 14th century, Medieval

Church Notes: 10th-11thC original church here [NB: the 11thC south doorway was originally from St Peter de Dunstable [demolished 1545]]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The font at the west end of the nave is 14th-century work, with an octagonal bowl panelled on each side and resting on an octagonal panelled shaft and base; the panels are enriched with well-cut conventional flowers, and there appear also a cross flory and the letters I.H.S." Noted in Pevsner (1968): "Font. Big, octagonal, Perp, with quatrefoils, tracery motifs, and other motifs."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.1393, -0.466

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 8′ 21.48″ N, 0° 27′ 57.6″ W

UTM: 30U 673406 5779560

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Location: in one of the motifs of the basin

Inscription Text: "I.H.S."

Inscription Source: VCH [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal with moulded upper surface; turned finial

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-09-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968