Little Barford / Bereford / Berkeford / Little Berkford
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B01: design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet
Scene Description: plain beading motif
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bedford Borough Council, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2010 in the Bedford Borough Council site [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/LittleBarford/] [accessed 26 April 2012]
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UB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the shafts of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bedford Borough Council, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2010 in the Bedford Borough Council site [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/LittleBarford/] [accessed 26 April 2012]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Apperley, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2005 by John Apperley [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/49400] [accessed 26 April 2012]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the north aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bedford Borough Council, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2010 in the Bedford Borough Council site [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/LittleBarford/] [accessed 26 April 2012]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10634BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Denis [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Denys [aka Denis, Dennis, Dionis, Dyonisius]
Church Location: Little Barford, St Neots, Bedfordshire, PE19 6YE
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located 3 km SW of St. Neots
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Biggleswade
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N aisle
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church Notes: Redundant church; now under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The first mention that has been found of the church of Little Barford is in 1178, when a papal bull of Pope Alexander confirmed the church to the abbey of Ramsey [...] About 1310–20 the present north arcade was built [...] The font, in the north aisle, has an octagonal bowl with beaded angles, standing on five small columns, and is plain and perhaps unfinished as regards the panels of the bowl—it may be of fourteenthcentury date and shows traces of red paint." Noted in Pevsner (1968): "Font. Probably later C13. The panels of the bowl have just a plain beading. The supports are square with moulded bases and capitals." [NB: the CRSBI (2008) mentions and illustrates a holy-water stoup wall-mounted to the right of the south door; the CRSBI cites an earlier source. "an etching by Fisher dated August 23, 1815 [in which the stoup] is set into the porch wall" -- probably medieval, but date unknown -- not listed separately in this Index]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.197778, -0.279325
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 11′ 52″ N, 0° 16′ 45.57″ W
UTM: 30U 685934 5786525
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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