Covington
Image copyright © John Turrell, 2004
Image and permission received (email of 20 February 2005)
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LID01: design element - architectural - building - church
Scene Description: the finial of the font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Turrell, 2004
Image Source: John Turrell [john.turrell@zen.co.uk
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 20 February 2005)
view of font and cover - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Turrell, 2004
Image Source: John Turrell [john.turrell@zen.co.uk
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 20 February 2005)
view of font and cover - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Turrell, 2004
Image Source: John Turrell [john.turrell@zen.co.uk
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 20 February 2005)
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Turrell, 2004
Image Source: John Turrell [john.turrell@zen.co.uk
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Turrell, 2004
Image Source: John Turrell [john.turrell@zen.co.uk
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (email of 20 February 2005)
view of church interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Turrell, 2004
Image Source: www.covington.org.uk
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view of cover - detail
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Image Source: John Turrell [john.turrell@zen.co.uk
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2004
Image Source: www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/hu/covin/
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10663COV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Margaret [aka All Saints']
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, N side, opposite the S entrance
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17544123
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints & St. Margaret
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 4 km W of Kimbolton
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire
Font Notes:
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Noted in Pevsner (1968): "Font. Octagonal. Norman, with scalloped base and underside." [NB: the font probably dates from the same period as the original church, the late 12th century, although there is a local belief that the lower base may be part of an earlier Saxon font]. The wooden font cover is an octagonal pyramid, plain but for the lovely architectural finial: a church; probably Victorian. [We are grateful to John Turrell, john.turrell@zen.co.uk, for the photographs of, and information on this font]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Turrell, john.turrell@zen.co.uk, for the photographs of, and information on this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: Victorian? / mid-19th century?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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. 234