Marholm nr. Cambridge

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Results: 3 records

B01: design element - motifs - floral - rose - 8

Scene Description: one in each panel [carved at a later date?]

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B02: design element - motifs - leaf - oak - 8

Scene Description: one in each panel [carved at a later date?]

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10670MAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located WNW of Peterborough
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1660s (?)
Century and Period: 17th century(mid?) / 14th century [altered] [re-carved in 17th century], Baroque [composite]
Described in Mee (1945): "The font is carved on its eight sides with double roses, and from each rose hangs a big leaf, each one different. It is medieval." Noted in Pevsner (1968): "Font. Octagonal, probably of the 1660s, with panels each with a leaf and a rose." The Digital Atlas of England [www.viewbuildings.com] suggests that the font may be 14th-century, the motifs re-carved probably in the 17th century.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968