Cambridge No. 4 / Grentebrige
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view of font - southeast side
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view of font - west side
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812)
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: in the corner spandrels of the upper surface of the basin rim
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - siren - male - holding up its tail - 4
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view of basin - east side
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view of basin - west side
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view of church exterior - portal
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of font in context
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Danny & Debbie Otero, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digtal photograph in Danny & Debbie Otero's blog [http://ddotero.blogspot.com/] [accessed 26 October 2007]
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view of basin - upper view
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view of basin - northeast side
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view of basin - south side
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view of basin - north side
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view of church interior - west end
Scene Description: the font is on the left, half hidden by the benches, etc.
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Image Source: engraving of unknown origin listed in [http://www.antiquemapsandprints.com/p-9283.jpg] [accessed 18 November 2007]
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view of basin - detail
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01376CAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only] -- 15th - 16th century[base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Cognate Fonts: The font at Anstey, Herts.
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter [aka St. Peter on the Hill / St Peter by the Castle / St Peter ad castrum] [redundant]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, centre of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: St Peter's St at Castle St,
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A1134 aka Chesterton Rd], in the city centre, just W of the river
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Rly
Additional Comments: damaged font: repairs to one of the corners of the upper basin side [southeast side], with replacement of a section, including the head of one of the mermen -- [not mentioned in Cambridgeshire Churches]
Font Notes:
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There are five entries for Cambridge [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4458/cambridge/] [accessed 29 March 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as a font that "may be referred to the twelfth century at least [...] surrounded with four rudely executed human figures, terminating in serpents". Described and illustrated with an engraving by J. Basire in Repton (1812) as a baptismal font consisting of a basin of the Norman period [NB: Repton uses English monarchy chronology and gives the time period between the Conquest and the reign of Henry II], raised on qautrefoil-shaped base, of a later, 15th or 16th century, date. Illustrated in a H.I. Hodgson lithograph of a March 1838 sketch by Henry E.L. Dryden, now in the Sir Henry Dryden Collection, Northamptonshire [NB: an almost identical drawing by Dryden of the same date includes a bench-end in the view]. Cox & Harvey (1907) include the noteworthy baptismal font at Cambridge St Peter's among the best Norman fonts in the county. Basin with mermen noted and illustrated in Geldart (1899). Bond (1908) mentions a "font with mermen grasping their tails" at St. Peter's, Cambridge. Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire for 1929, mentions "an early and curious font, consisting of a square basin, carved on a low, moulded circular base." Noted in the RCHM (Cambridge, 1959). Noted and illustrated in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (2008).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library for access to the copy of Lysons’ Magna Britannia, and to Jim Ingram, of the Preservation Services, Robarts Library, for the digital imaging of Lysons’ illustrations. We are also gratful to Jo Edkins for her recent photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 302821 5788439
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.211056, 0.113889
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 12′ 39.8″ N, 0° 6′ 50″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Diameter (inside rim): 56 cm*
Basin Total Height: 43 cm*
Height of Base: 60 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 103 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 69 x 70 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2008)
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 206fn
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 187, 188
- Geldart, Ernest, A manual of church decoration and symbolism, containing directions and advice to those who desire worthily to deck the church at various seasons of the year: also, the explanation and the history of the symbols and emblems of religion, Oxford, London: A.R. Mobray & Co., 1899, p. 107
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the city of Cambridge, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1959, vol. 1: cxi and engraving of the basin on p. cxxix; vol. 2: 288, 289
- Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822, vol. II: p. 60 and plate
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970, p. 230
- Repton, John Adey, "Specimens of Fonts, collected from different Churches, by John Adey Repton, Esq. F.A.S. In a Letter addressed to Craven Ord, Esq. F.R.S. and F.A.S.V.P., read 12th March, 1807", XVI, Archaeologia, 1812, pp. 335-337 and pl. XXXVII-XLV; p. 335 and pl. XXXVII fig. 4