Barnwell
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13191BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew the Less [aka Abbey Church or Priory Church]
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4862023
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the Newmarket Rd., justt W of the airport; it is now a suburb of Cambridge
Additional Comments: [no font mentioned in Cambridgeshire Churches [accessed 16 October 2007]]
Font Notes:
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Noted in Paley's Guide (1844): "a plain octagonal font".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- 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. 50 / [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 16 October 2007]