Wisbech nr. Peterborough / Wisbece
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "The Church of St Peter & St Paul, Wisbech. I naturally thought access was via the tower, but it wasn't; you have to walk around to the south porch."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2014 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4118900] [accessed 25 April 2016]
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view of church exterior - south view
![Source caption: "The Church of St Peter & St Paul, Wisbech [...] The reconstructed form of the church has existed since 1400, but for the tower and the damage caused by the earlier one when it collapsed into the building during a storm in the 1400s. The tower is of around 1530. It stands almost apart from the church, but is connected to it. During this period a chapel was built alongside the chancel and the southern porch was constructed. Evidence of an earlier Norman church can be seen as foundations at the western end of the main nave. The overcrowded graveyard has been transformed into gardens."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160425013_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "The Church of St Peter & St Paul, Wisbech [...] The reconstructed form of the church has existed since 1400, but for the tower and the damage caused by the earlier one when it collapsed into the building during a storm in the 1400s. The tower is of around 1530. It stands almost apart from the church, but is connected to it. During this period a chapel was built alongside the chancel and the southern porch was constructed. Evidence of an earlier Norman church can be seen as foundations at the western end of the main nave. The overcrowded graveyard has been transformed into gardens."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2014 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4122544] [accessed 25 April 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of the Church of St Peter & St Paul, Wisbech. Double nave - The parish church is one of only two in the United Kingdom with a double nave covered by a single roof."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2014 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4122672] [accessed 25 April 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2014 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4122788] [accessed 25 April 2016]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "C13 font"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 April 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1828346] [accessed 25 April 2016]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of the Church of St Peter & St Paul, Wisbech. The font."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Hitchborne, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2014 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4122658] [accessed 25 April 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10699WIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: Church Terrace, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire PE13 1HB
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located on the A1101, just W of the A47, between Leverington (NW) and Elm (SE), NE of March, 35 km ENE of Peterborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Ely 2 [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Wisbech
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Font Notes:
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There are six entries for Wisbech [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TF4609/wisbech/] [accessed 25 April 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry in the Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 4, 2002) reads: "The history of the fabric is involved and of unusual interest; the plan, too, is extraordinary. The oldest part of the existing structure dates from the third quarter of the 12th century. At that time there was a chancel, clerestoried nave, aisles, and engaged west tower. [...] The 14th-century font has a plain bowl resting on clustered shafts". The basin is octagonal, plain but for a scotia-torus at the bottom end; the eight slender colonnettes of the base cluster have moulded capitals and bases; raised on a modern two-step octagonal plinth. Wooden cover is round and flat; appears modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.663938, 0.161424
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 39′ 50.18″ N, 0° 9′ 41.12″ E
UTM: 31U 308047 5838669
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2005-02-24 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.