Werrington nr. Peterborough / Widerintone

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the outer colonnettes of the base

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "the Church of St. John The Baptist dates from the 13th. century with various additions in the 14th. and 17th. centuries. Originally a separate village, Werrington officially became a part of the city of Peterborough in 1929."

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10688WER
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Church St, Werrington, Peterborough PE4 6QE, UK -- Tel.: +44 1733 576541
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A15 [aka Werrington Pkwy / Lincoln Rd], 5-6 NNW of Peterborough town centre and now part of the town
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Upton -- formerly Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
There are two entries for Werrington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TF1603/werrington/] [accessed 11 December 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Pevsner (1968) notes: "Font. Plain C13 bowl, octagonal, on shafts with moulded capitals." The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain tapering sides raised on a central shaft and eight outer colonnettes decorated with mouldings, a plain octagonal lower base and a plinth. Plain wooden font cover with knob handle; modern. Listed and illustrated in The Digital Atlas of England [www.viewbuildings.com] [link no longer functional] [The Digital Atlas of England is no more. It has a new name and new website. The Parish Church Photographic Survey [https://www.parishchurches.org/] [accessed 11 December 2019] [NB: the new site offers pay-only access via an app]. The Parish web site [www.werringtonparish.org.uk/?page_id=123] [accessed 11 December 2019] notes: "A Bell Cote was added above the East wall of the Nave and the Chancel arch was strengthened (thickened) to take the weight. Before they were removed in 1930 (one is now at John Taylor of Loughborough, the bellfounders) they were listed as the only bells in the Diocese of Peterborough that had been cast before 1300. The South arcade of the Nave has been rebuilt. A Chantry Chapel was added onto the North side of the Chancel. The North wall was replaced by an arcade and the North Aisle. The font dates from this period", but what that "period" refers to is unclear from the text. This same source notes that the font was moved to its present position in the restoration done in the 1860s, and it also mentions a new font, made of wood "by the late John Breeze" in 2003. The CRSBI (2019) notes "the chancel arch, S doorway and bell-cote" as Romanesque, but mentions no font in this church. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: TF1698803152] reports a "C13 font" in it.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.61358, -0.2736
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 36′ 48.89″ N, 0° 16′ 24.96″ W
UTM: 30U 684581 5832776

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no

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: 2019-12-11 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968