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view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken in April 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.genuki.org.uk

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view of church interior - plan

Image Source: digital photograph in www.standrew-kimbolton.org.uk

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in April 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.genuki.org.uk

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view of font

Scene Description: [NB: at the time of this photograph (19 February 2004) the font was still in the SW corner]

Image Source: digital photograph in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/hu/kimbo/index.htm]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: shown here in its new location by the north wall after 2004

Image Source: digital photograph taken in April 2006 by Colin Hinson [www.genuki.org.uk

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view of font in context

Scene Description: in the new location, by the north wall, after 2004

Image Source: digital photograph in www.standrew-kimbolton.org.uk

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the font, the Vicar, the accolites, etc

Image Source: digital photograph in www.standrew-kimbolton.org.uk

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the font and the accolites

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10669KIM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located on the B645, 12-13 km W of St Neots, 38-40 km from Cambridge

Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N aisle [moved there in 2004, previously in the SW corner]

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only] [base from 1918], Medieval / composite

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Pevsner (1968) notes: "Font. From Little Stukeley. Very large and very uncouth. Consequently called Saxon, though more probably C12. No decoration at all." The web site of the Parish Church of St. Andrew [www.standrew-kimbolton.org.uk] informs that: "The font, which had been used as a cattle trough in Little Stukely, [...] stands on a stone plinth [i.e., base] with a central column and four columns supporting the corners. It was erected in the church in 1918. In 2004 the font was moved from the south west corner of the church to the north aisle." The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/hu/kimbo/index.htm] describes this font as "by no means a prepossessing sight", a Romanesque basin made of "shelly limestone" raised on a a five-support base donated by H.A. Hallett and dated from 1918, the date of the restoration of the font into the church after a long stint as cattle trough at Little Stukeley.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal-to-square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal-to-square

Drainage Notes: not lined

Diameter (inside rim): 61 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 87 cm* [across flats]

Basin Total Height: 51 cm*

Height of Base: 67 cm [calculated]

Font Height (less Plinth): 118 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 87 x 87 cm* [at square bottom]

Notes on Measurements: * [measurements in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/hu/kimbo/index.htm]]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: [an inscription on the 1918 plinth dates the modern base identifies its donor as H.A. Hallett, MD

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: there appears to be a hole from one of the cover staples in the upper rim of the basin

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. Accessed: 2006-04-15 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

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