St. Peter Port / Sancti Petri du Portu Mari / Saint Pièrre Port / Saint-Pierre-Port
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 October 2015)
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view of basin and cover
![the Victorian font [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1151029010_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the Victorian font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 October 2015 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 October 2015)
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2009 by Man vyi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Églyise_Saint_Pièrre_Port_Dgèrnésy_3.jpg] [accessed 29 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Released by its author into the public domain
view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 October 2015 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 October 2015)
view of font and cover
Scene Description: the Victorian font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 October 2015 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 October 2015)
INFORMATION
FontID: 20093PET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Town Church
Church Location: Church Square, St Peter Port GY1 2DL, Guernsey -- Tel.: 01481 714 014
Country Name: England
Location: Guernsey, Channel Islands
Directions to Site: Located in the town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Canterbury
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and modern font
Church Notes: first chapel here 1020; first documente reference to a church here 1048; present church 1250; present church completed 1466;
Font Notes:
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The present font is Victorian, probably from the 19th-century renovation of the church here. [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 533570 5478197