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]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 18009WOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
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
Church Address: Church Street, Woodhurst, Cambridgeshire, PE28 3BN
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: altered font? (base either modern or re-tooled?)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 699591 5805880
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.36679, -0.068303
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 22′ 0.44″ N, 0° 4′ 5.89″ W
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.