Helpston / Helpstone
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Image Source: digital photograph in the Digital Atlas of England, 2005 [www.viewbuildings.com]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10857HEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph
Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located on the B1443, 12 km NW of Peterborough, in the Soke of Peterborough
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
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Octagonal mounted baptismal consisting of an octagonal basin with roughly vertical sides and a chamfered underbowl, raised on an octagonal pedestal and an ooctagonal lower base with a chamfered top; all three volumes are completely plain, and may have been re-tooled; modern wooden cover, octagonal and plain, with metal ring-handle and decoration. Not noted in Pevsner (1968). Listed and illustrated in The Digital Atlas of England web site [www.viewbuildings.com]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decorations