Croydon nr. Cambidge / Crauuedene / Croydon cum Clopton
Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004
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Results: 4 records
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/croydon.htm] [accessed 21 October 2007]
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design element - architectural - column - 4
Scene Description: or thick vertical mouldings, at the corners of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/croydon.htm] [accessed 21 October 2007]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/croydon.htm] [accessed 21 October 2007]
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view of church interior - nave - south aisle - looking west
Scene Description: the font visible at the back
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/croydon.htm] [accessed 21 October 2007]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01378CRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Lane, Croydon, Cambridgeshire SG8 0DL
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B1042, about 20 km WSW of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Arringford [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font / whitewashed font / painted font: appears whitewashed in 2005 photos
Font Notes:
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There are seven entries for this Croydon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3149/croydon/] [accessed 17 March 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. Described in the RCHM (Cambridgeshire, 1968): "rectangular limestone bowl with double rolls at the angles and plain bands at top and bottom; 12th-century; the bowl, which stands on a modern base, is fractured and has been filled to take a later lead ling." Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Norman, square and plain, with angle shafts to the bowl." The Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 8, 1982) notes: "The church at Clopton had been established by the late 12th century [...] The font has a 12th-century limestone bowl." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2016): "The font has a square bowl on a modern cuboid block which acts as a plinth. Each corner of the bowl is carved with a vertical double roll. There are major repairs to cracks on the E and N faces, while the inside of the basin has been drastically reduced in size with mortar and a new lead lining fitted. This has been very roughly done, and pieces of the old lining project through the mortar."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches [www.druidic.org/camchurches/] for his photographs of church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 699867 5779435
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.129242, -0.07991
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 7′ 45.27″ N, 0° 4′ 47.68″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone [basin only]
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Basin Depth: 32 cm*
Basin Total Height: 47 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 79 x 76 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2016)
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat with four (?) standing ribs; date unknown, probably modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- 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. 188
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Cambridge, Woking; London: Printed in England for Her Majesty's Stationary Office by Unwin Brothers Unlimited, 1968, vol. 1: 74
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970, p. 328