Woodhurst / Wodehirst / Wodehyrst // Wood Hurst

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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Colin Hinson in 2011 [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HUN/PhotoFrames/Churches/HUNWoodhurstStJohnBaptist_2.html] [accessed 24 April 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18009WOO
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Church Street, Woodhurst, Cambridgeshire, PE28 3BN
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located near Oldhurst, 6-7 km N of St. Ives
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Hurstingstone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Church Notes: A BBC News report on 12 March 2012 noted: "Part of an 800-year-old church in Fenland has collapsed because of subsidence caused by the drought." [www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-17341455] [accessed 24 April 2012] It does not appear to have affected the baptismal font
The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol, 2, 1932) notes: "The Domesday Survey (1086) indicates two churches in St. Ives, one being probably the chapel of Woodhurst, but the oldest parts of the present building are the nave, built late in the 12th century. and the south arcade in the mid-13th century. [...] The church was restored in 1871. [...] The font has a 13th-century octagonal bowl resting upon a tapered stem which is either modern or reworked."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.36679, -0.068303
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 22′ 0.44″ N, 0° 4′ 5.89″ W
UTM: 30U 699591 5805880

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-04-24 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.