Biggleswade / Bicheleswade / Bichelesworde / Bickleswade / Bykeleswade

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LB01: design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of basin

Scene Description: modern basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of basin - interior

Scene Description: modern basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2010 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2007 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10625BIG

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: Shortmead Street, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, SG18 0AT

Country Name: England

Location: Bedfordshire, East

Directions to Site: Located off the A1, 16 km ESE of Bedford, 30 WSW of Cambridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

Historical Region: Hundred of Biggleswade

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side

Century and Period: 15th century [base only?] [composite font], Late Medieval

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 2. 1908) notes: "The earliest part of the church appears to be at the west end of the nave, where the eastern arch of the tower shows details of c. 1300 [...] No other features in the nave are earlier than 1340 [...] The font at the west end of the nave has a plain bowl on an octagonal panelled stem with emblems of the crucifixion carved on it." Noted in Pevsner (1968): "Font. Perp[endicular] shaft with simple tracery motif." The baptismal font consists of a modern octagonal basin decorated with an acanthus vine at the upper rim, and one of the sides the IHS symbol [the other sides appear to be blank]; plain underbowl chamfer; the basin is late, probably Victorian; the badly worn octagonal pedestal base has double panels (up-and-down) with a variety of tracery [and?] symbols; it appears very worn and damage, as if it had had a long exposure to the elements. The wooden cover is a nice imitation (?) of the pyramidal type with cusped arises.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 688021 5774101

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted) [modern]

Basin Interior Shape: round [modern]

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal [modern]

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: initials

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on one of the sides of the modern basin

Inscription Text: "IHS"

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century? / Victorian?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-04-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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