Barton No. 2 / Barton nr. Cambridge / Bertone

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13181BAR
Object Type: Stoup
Font Date: ca. 1300?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, to the E of the S door
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Church Ln, Barton, Cambridgeshire CB23 7BD, UK
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
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 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

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

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, vol. 1: xlv, 14
  • 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, p. 23 / [http://books.google.com/books?id=RvMDAAAAQAAJ&dq=paley+ecclesiological+guide+to+the+churches&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=kGRtVceOoe&sig=hyB1qBy3pyEvJ1fS1bmISPsXRCU#PPA7,M1] [accessed 13 October 2007]