Thornhaugh / Thornhaw

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10861THO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located near Barnack and Wittering, in the Soke of Peterborough

Historical Region: formerly Northamptonshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, SW corner of the nave

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font perhaps of the Norman period consisting of a plain cylindrical basin with rounded underbowl, raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base and a round plinth [NB: the font looks like it has been drastically cleaned or re-tooled recently]. Wooden font cover of the type with a flat round base and four ribs in cruciform arrangement; knob finial; appears modern. Not noted in Pevsner. Listed and illustrated in The Digital Atlas of England web site [www.viewbuildings.com]..

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]