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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding
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view of font and cover
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: 10859PEA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Pega
Church Patron Saints: St. Pega
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located near Walton, just N of Peterborough, in the Soke of Peterborough
Historical Region: formerly Northamptonshire?
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides with a moulded underbowl, raised on a plain octagonal pedestal base and an octagonal plinth with 'priest's stone' extension. Flat wooden cover, octagonal and modern, decorated with raised cruciform motif. Not noted in Pevsner. Listed and illustrated in The Digital Atlas of England web site [www.viewbuildings.com] with date of the 14th century. [NB: the font looks like it may have been re-tooled in some areas]
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: [cf. FontNotes]