Barton No. 2 / Barton nr. Cambridge / Bertone

INFORMATION

FontID: 13181BAR
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Ln, Barton, Cambridgeshire CB23 7BD, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located at the A603-B1046 junction, 5 km SW of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Wetherley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, to the E of the S door
Date: ca. 1300?
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
There are three entries for this Barton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4055/barton/] [accessed 16 May 2016], none of which mention cleric or church in it. Paley's Guide (1844) notes: "There is a water-stoup at the side of the south door, within the nave". The RCHM (Cambridgeshire, 1968): "In the nave, immediately E[ast] of S[outh] door, consisting of a mutilated bowl in a recess with a two-centred head; probably c. 1300".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.181682, 0.057653
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 10′ 54.05″ N, 0° 3′ 27.55″ E
UTM: 31U 298847 5785327

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Cambridge, Woking; London: Printed in England for Her Majesty's Stationary Office by Unwin Brothers Unlimited, 1968
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, The Ecclesiologist's guide to the churches within a circuit of seven miles round Cambridge, with introductory remarks, London; Cambridge: J. van Voorst; Metcalfe and Palmer, 1844