Thriplow / Trepeslau

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 28

Scene Description: northeast view of the font -- seven arches on each side of the square basin

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches, [www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/thriplow.htm] [accessed 16 December 2007]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches, [www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/thriplow.htm] [accessed 16 December 2007]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches, [www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/thriplow.htm] [accessed 16 December 2007]

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view of font

Scene Description: the angle of the photograph allows a partial view of the lined inner basin -- Source caption: "St George's, Thriplow, font. The church guidebook describes this as "Norman or possibly Saxon"."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 April 2008 by Keith Edkins [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/750225] [accessed 22 June 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Thriplow: St George - font and flowers. The square Purbeck marble font is Norman, its supports probably from the 19th-century restoration."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2015 by John Sutton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4403307] [accessed 22 June 2016]

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view of font - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 February 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2294770] [accessed 22 June 2016]

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view of font - northeast side

Scene Description: only the basin is original; the five shafts of the base, the lower base and the tree-step plinth are modern

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches, [www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/thriplow.htm] [accessed 16 December 2007]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01388THR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. George [formerly All Saints']

Church Patron Saints: St. George [earlier dedicated to All Saints]

Church Location: Brook Road, Thriplow, Cambridgeshire SG8 7RE, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A505, W of the M11, 10 km NE of Royston

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Thriplow

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

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

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]

Church Notes: Cruciform church of the late 13th century.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are six entries for Thriplow [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4446/thriplow/] [accessed 22 June 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Norman period in this church. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Norman, of table-top type, Purbeck marble, with seven shallow blank arches against each side." The Victoria County History (Cambridge…, vol. 8, 1982) notes: "There was a church in Thriplow in the 12th century. […] The Purbeck marble font and re-used fragments of 12th-century carving including shafts on the north transept buttresses suggest that there was a church of some importance there before the present one was begun in the later 13th century." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2016): "A square bowl in Sussex marble supported on five modern shafts" of the 12th century. The basin is the only original part that remains of the original Norman font; it is a roughly square bowl, very weathered, with slightly tapering sides that are decorated with a blind arcade of seven tall round arches on each side; the base is a modern reconstruction of the five-support Norman type: a broad plain central shaft and four corner colonnettes raised on a quadrangular lower base; in this case the capitals of the colonnettes are cushion-type, the bases square and a roll mouling has been worked onto the top and bottom of each stem. According to Cambridgeshire Churches, the font , made of Purbeck marble, "had been hidden in the south-west corner until the restorers uncovered it and placed it in its current location." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with seven pointed panels on each face" [source given: Pevsner] [NB: none of the other sources mention 'pointed' panels, and the photographs of the font show round tops].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.102096, 0.103925

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 6′ 7.55″ N, 0° 6′ 14.13″ E

UTM: 31U 301656 5776351

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Diameter (inside rim): 61 cm*

Basin Total Height: 31 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 75 x 76 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2016)

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-06-22 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: 2005-03-07 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

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

Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970