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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals

Scene Description: on one (?) of the sides of the [now] octagonal basin -- seen here are the southeast, east and northeast sides [orientation is approximate]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 February 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2294815] [accessed 7 June 2016]

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: above the arches of the arcade (old Norman design)

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 February 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2294815] [accessed 7 June 2016]

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design element - motifs - trefoil

Scene Description: on some of the sides of the [now] octagonal basin -- seen here are the south, southeast, east and northeast sides [orientation is approximate]

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/melbourn.htm] [accessed 13 November 2007]

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design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: above the arcade, on the east side of the font [orientation is approximate]

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view of basin - north and northwest sides

Scene Description: obviously this side of the font had cracked and the two old metal staples were added for reinforcement

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 February 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2294817] [accessed 7 June 2016]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 February 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2294789] [accessed 7 June 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 February 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2294791] [accessed 7 June 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 February 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2294801] [accessed 7 June 2016]

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view of font and cover - east side

Scene Description: [orientation is approximate]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01383MEL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: 2 Station Road, Melbourn, Cambridgeshire SG8 6DX
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off the A10, 3-4 km N of Royston, 18-20 km SSW of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Arringford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, SW end, to the left of the entrance
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [re-cut] [basin only], Pre-Conquest [altered?]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ben Colburn and Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches, for the information on and photographs of church and font]
There are five entries for this Melbourn [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3844/melbourn/] [accessed 7 June 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) report a baptismal font of the Norman period in this church. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Octagonal, C13, with sunk cusped trefoils [...] and also a less elementary panel with two blank arches and some carving above." The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 8, 1982) notes: "The earliest evidence of Christianity in Melbourn is the 7th-century Christian cemetery. [...] There was probably an 11th-century church building, and a church was recorded in 1152. [...] The 11th-century font probably survives from an earlier building." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2016). Described and illustrated in Cambridgeshire Churches [www.druidic.org/camchurch/]: "The idiosyncratic font [...] was made in the 12th century, a typical square Norman affair. Later, it was recut as an octagon and given trefoils on four of the faces; the old Norman arcading survives on the eastern face." The lower basin side and underbowl were also cut into the octagonal shape and given a discreet motif at each of the eight angles; the base, an octagonal pedestal decorated with several thin mouldings, is also a later addition, as is the flat plain wooden cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.08341, 0.015473
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 5′ 0.28″ N, 0° 0′ 55.7″ E
UTM: 31U 295514 5774519

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted) [formerly square]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal [formerly square]
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Diameter (inside rim): 56.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 73.5 - 78.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 32 cm*
Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 32 x 32 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2016)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-06-07 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: 2005-03-02 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