Conington nr. Peterborough / Coninctuone
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Humphrey, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2013 by Richard Humphrey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3619395] [accessed 30 June 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of All Saints, Conington. Looking down towards the West end of the church with the impressive cut out that reveals the ringing gallery. Although redundant and not used for regular worship, 2 services are still held in the church each year."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ben, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 September 2012 by Ben [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3145439] [accessed 30 June 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Stafford, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 October 2006 by Chris Stafford [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/311067] [accessed 30 June 2016]
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view of font
Scene Description: the original basin on a modern base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/275/] [accessed 30 June 2016]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - ointed arches - intersecting arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/275/] [accessed 30 June 2016]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10662CON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Cognate Fonts: The font at St. Ives, in the same county
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints [now in the care of the Redundant Churches Fund]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Lane, Conington, Cambridgeshire PE7 3QA
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A1, just S of the B660, SW of Holme, SSW of Peterborough [NB: not to be confused with another Conington, near St Ives]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Normancross -- formerly Huntingdonshire
Additional Comments: damaged font / repaired font: (the present font [cf. FontNotes]) -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There is one entry for this Conington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL1785/conington/] [accessed 30 June 2016]; it mentions a priest and a church in it. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL1804085901] (1958) notes: "The font is C15. Limestone. Octagonal bowl with panelled sides having intersecting arcading. The base is C19." Pevsner (1968) writes: "Font. Octagonal. Late Norman, with intersecting pointed arches on colonnettes." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2016): "the font, almost certainly 13thc. rather than 12thc. [...], an octagonal bowl on a modern shafted stem and plinth. The bowl is carved in low relief with intersecting pointed arcading, two bays per face, with fictive capitals and bases [...] There are repairs to N section of the rim, and the entire SW face is a replacement."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 685872 5815533
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.4583, -0.2642
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 27′ 29.88″ N, 0° 15′ 51.12″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 10 - 13 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 56 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 76 - 82 cm*
Basin Total Height: 50 cm*
Height of Base: 60 cm [calculated]
Font Height (with Plinth): 110 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2016)
REFERENCES
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 232