Sutton nr. Peterborough / Sutton in the Soke / Sutton St. Michael

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Results: 8 records
design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the outer colonnettes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograp taken 11 June 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2466657] [accessed 25 April 2016]
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design element - motifs - panel - quadrangular - 8
view of church exterior - northwest view
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 10860SUT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Saints
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Saints
Church Location: 1 Lovers Lane, Sutton, Peterborough PE5 7XB
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located about 12 km W of Peterborough, in the Soke of Peterborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: formerly Northamptonshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Church Notes: church originally 12thC; restored 19thC
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
No individual entry found for this Sutton in the Domesday survey. The entry in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL0952398728] (1955) notes: "Small church of C12 origin. Restored 1867-8 [...] Possibly C14 font with panelled octagonal bowl with octagonal central shaft surrounded by 8 smaller shafts." Octagonal mounted baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin of vertical sides decorated with plain rectangular panels, raised on a central shaft and eight outer colonnettes decorated with mouldings; the whole stands on a quadrangular plinth. Octagonal wooden cover, plain and modern, with metal ring-handle and decoration. Not noted in Pevsner. Listed and illustrated in The Digital Atlas of England web site [www.viewbuildings.com].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.575454,
-0.384851
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 34′ 31.63″ N,
0° 23′ 5.47″ W
UTM: 30U 677204 5828258
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
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]