Great Paxton / Magna Paxton / Much Paxton / Pachstone / Pacstonia / Parchestune / Paxton
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2011 by Colin Hinson [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HUN/PhotoFrames/Churches/HUNGreatPaxtonHolyTrinity_1.html] [accessed 25 April 2012]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 18017PAX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Address: Church Lane, Great Paxton, Cambridgeshire, PE19 6RG
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km NNE of St. Neots
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely [formerly in the Diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Toseland
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the pre-Conquest church here?)
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Huntingdone, vol. 2, 1932) notes: "The church is mentioned in the Domesday Survey (1086), and of this building the piers of a central tower and two and a half bays of the north and south arcades still remain. [...] Late in the 14th century much reconstruction took place. [...] The church was completely restored in 1880 [...] The 15th-century font is a plain octagon, with similar stem and base."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photograph of this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 689185 5793813
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.262113, -0.227746
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 15′ 43.61″ N, 0° 13′ 39.89″ 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.