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view of church exterior - southwest view
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18026EYE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: High Street, Eyeworth, Central Bedfordshire SG19 2HH
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SE of Potton, 7 ENE of Biggleswade, near the Cambs border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans [formerly in the Diocese of Ely and/or Lincoln]
Historical Region: Hundred of Biggleswade
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, just W of the S entranceway
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "There are no details [in the present church] older than the first quarter of the fourteenth century; the south aisle and arcade belong entirely to this date, but the walls of the nave may be earlier than this, though there is nothing to prove it. [...] The font has a plain octagonal bowl, much scraped, but apparently of fifteenth-century date." The VCH (ibid.) further notes that a quarrel related to the advowson of this church was recorded in 1225. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this church].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 693256 5775314
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: 2012-05-02 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.