Baptism Font - St Andrew - Swavesey, Cambridgeshire - Stone Church Artefacts on Waymarking.com

Late medieval font in the south aisle adjacent to the tower in St Andrew's church, Swavesey, with traceried panels and blank shields, a slim Perpendicular octagonal bowl on a long tapering stem.

"The church today is a roughly rectangular building comprising a nave with north and south aisles, a tower at the west end with north and south aisles, and at the east end a chancel with aisle and vestry on the north side and a lady chapel on its south side. There is also a south porch. The font is in the south aisle adjacent to the tower. A choir vestry occupies the north tower aisle. An organ occupies the north chancel aisle.

Little if anything recognisable remains of the church which probably stood on this site before the Norman conquest of 1066. The nave is markedly broader at the tower end than at the chancel arch, and this may reflect the lay-out of an earlier building. Two adze-cut stones which can be seen in the lady chapel at the south-west corner of the chancel may represent the work of Saxon masons."

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