Great Gidding No. 1
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13218GID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17543942
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A1, near Little Gidding and Steeple Gidding, 25-30 km SSW of Peterborough
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire
Font Notes:
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Reported in Clarke's Gazetteer of 1852: "a curious font". [NB: we have no further information on this font, but the church goes back to Norman times]
REFERENCES
- Clarke, B., The British Gazetteer, poltical, commercial, ecclesiastical, and historical; showing [...], London: Published (for the proprietors) by H.G. Collins, 1852, vol. 2: 253 / [http://books.google.com/books?id=Cs4HAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA287&lpg=PA287&dq=longstow+church+font&source=web&ots=oEll8d02wb&sig=cEACZpfbEkPDiFm8yf-yzm-GZmY#PPP7,M1] [accessed 9 Nov 2007]