Cambridge No. 4 / Grentebrige

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - siren - male - holding up its tail - 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Jo Edkins 15 September 2010 [http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/walks/old.htm]

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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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view of basin - detail

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view of basin - detail

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view of basin - east side

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view of basin - north side

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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 - upper view

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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 church interior - west end

Scene Description: the font is on the left, half hidden by the benches, etc.

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view of font

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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 in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01376CAM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter [aka St. Peter on the Hill / St Peter by the Castle / St Peter ad castrum] [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: St Peter's St at Castle St,

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located off the A1134 aka Chesterton Rd], in the city centre, just W of the river

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Rly

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, centre of the nave

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only] -- 15th - 16th century[base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Cognate Fonts: The font at Anstey, Herts.

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.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.211056, 0.113889

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 12′ 39.8″ N, 0° 6′ 50″ E

UTM: 31U 302821 5788439

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

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

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. Accessed: 2005-02-26 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

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

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

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970

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; r["References"]