Etton / Etton-cum-Helpston / Etton nr. Peterborough
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Digital Atlas of England, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph in the Digital Atlas of England, 2005 [www.viewbuildings.com]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10856ETT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Stephen
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located 8 km NNW of Peterborough, in the Soke of Peterborough
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: Medieval
Font Notes:
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The baptismal font at St. Stephen's is octagonal and plain, with straight sides from top to bottom and without any indication of distinnction berween basin and base. It is probably made of two pieces of limestone (?), roughly equivalent of basin and base, that have been cemented together; theupper stone apears to have a diagonal crack throughout. Pyramidal wooden cover, plain with a knob finial; probably 18th century (?). Noted in Mee (1945) as medieval. Listed and illustrated in The Digital Atlas of England web site [www.viewbuildings.com]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945