Guilden Morden / Mordune

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design element - architectural - column - 4

Scene Description: the outer colonnettes of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 August 2005 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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design element - motifs - fillet

Scene Description: a narrow one below the moulding, all around

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on some of the collonetes of the base

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - beaded-tape

Scene Description: "heavy-beaded" [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 29 August 2005 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of basin - interior

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4660832] [accessed 8 June 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font - northwest side

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view of font - southwest side

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view of font and cover - southwest side

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view of font and cover - upper view

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01381GUI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 21 Church Street, Guilden Morden, Cambridgeshire SG8 0LA

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located off the A14, 8 km NW of Royston, 15 km SW of Cambridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Arringford

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

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of this font]

Church Notes: Church is Perpendicular outside and Decorated style inside. Double rood screen.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are four entries for [Guilden] Morden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL2744/guilden-morden/] [accessed 8 June 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period here. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Circular, on five supports, the four outer ones circular, the central one polygonal. Along the rim of the bowl heavy beaded spiral-moulding." The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 8, 1982) notes: "Picot's endowment of the priory which he founded at Cambridge c. 1090 included his church at Guilden Morden, which Pain Peverel confirmed to the priory on its removal to Barnwell c. 1112. [...] The earliest surviving portion is the three eastern arches of the nave south arcade, probably representing its original length. Their double-chamfered arches on octagonal piers are probably of before 1300. [...] The font has a 12th-century basin on later columns." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2016) where it is noted that "the shafts to NW, SW and SE are circular, and that to NE is polygonal as is the central shaft"; the CRSBI further notes that the basin is made of "two parts, with a disc-shaped bottom mortared to an inverted truncated cone". [NB: it appears that the base is a composite arrangement, as indicated above; the three similar outer colonnettes have moulded round capitals but octagonal bases; the central shaft appears square at the base but the sides are chamfered; the outer shaft on the east side is as thick as the central shaft and has a square base]. The inner well of the basin is round and lead-lined, and has a central drain hole; there are repairs to the upper basin side, with some replacement of the original stone with modern pieces. The wooden font cover is flat and patterned, modern, and has a ring handle.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 04′ 50.98″ N, 0° 08′ 00.63″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 13.5 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 62 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 89 cm*

Basin Total Height: 43.5 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 88 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2016)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-06-08 00:00:00. 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. Accessed: 2016-06-08 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970