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view of font and cover
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
![re-carved? [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1130228005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: re-carved? [cf. FontNotes]
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view of basin
Scene Description: it appears to have been only partially re-carved
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view of basin - interior
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view of church exterior - west view
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of font and cover in context
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: with the font towards the west end, centre aisle
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view of font base
Scene Description: the modern base and plinth
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18020STA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: 1 The Town, Great Staughton, Cambridgeshire, PE19 5BB
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SE of Kimbolton, 10 km NW of St. Neots, near the border with Befordshire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely [formerly in the Diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Toseland
Additional Comments: buried font / disused font / re-cycled font (old basin used as base for a modern one) / restored font / painted font -- MUST USE
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 2, 1932) notes: "The church is mentioned in the Domesday Survey (1086), but nothing of this early date remains in situ. At the end of the 13th century a gradual rebuilding was commenced [...] The 13th-century font is a plain octagon; the upper part appears to be only roughly worked. It bears faint traces of red and black paint. It stands on a central and four smaller shafts, all modern. [...] This font bowl was discarded in 1866 and buried in the floor of the south aisle upside down to form a base for a mean modern font. In 1901 it was dug up and re-erected in its present form." The octagonal basin has roughly finished plain sides on the upper half of the basin,; the lower half is indented and polish finished, with a moulding at the lower end; the five supporting columns, the octagonal lower base and the plinth are all modern. Modern too is the flat octagonal lid. [NB: the polished lower half of the basin and the roll moulding could be a later re-carving].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photograph of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 681983 5794086
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle [NB: the cover shown in 2013 photos is a different one; totally plain and probably made of plywood]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.