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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November by Revd. Neil Brice for BSI
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view of basin - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rev. Neil Brice, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November by Revd. Neil Brice for BSI
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view of basin and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rev. Neil Brice, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November by Revd. Neil Brice for BSI
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design element - motifs - moulding
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1071123018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rev. Neil Brice, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November by Revd. Neil Brice for BSI
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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, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/orwell.htm] [accessed 20 November 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rev. Neil Brice, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November by Revd. Neil Brice for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mails of 23 November 2007)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rev. Neil Brice, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November by Revd. Neil Brice for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mails of 23 November 2007)
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rev. Neil Brice, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 November by Revd. Neil Brice for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mails of 23 November 2007)
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Susan Giddings, 2001
Image Source: photograph by Susan Giddings, 2001, in [http://www.rootsweb.com/~engcam/PlacesBuildings/Orwell.htm] [accessed 20 November 2007]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01397ORW
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, S side W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: 2 Fisher's Lane, Orwell, Cambridgeshire SG8 5QX
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A603, 16 km SW of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Wetherley
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the late-11thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are eight entries for Orwell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3650/orwell/] [accessed 16 May 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Early English period here. In the RCHM (1968) [cf. infra]. Noted in the Victoria County History (Cambrige and the Isle of Ely, vol. 5, 1973): "The church may have belonged in the late 11th century to Earl Roger, who granted tithes in Orwell to St. Martin's Abbey, Sées (Orne). [...] By 1200 there were a nave and chancel, and the tower had been started. It was finished in the 13th century, when the upper stages, buttresses, and tower arch were built. The nave aisles and porch were added c. 1300 [...] The font is a 12th-century bowl with a later medieval stem." The baptismal font, located in the west end of the nave, consists of a cylindrical basin of plain sides and moulded underbowl, raised on a pedestal base decorated with mouldings. It has a flat round wooden cover decorated with metal ornamentation and handle; it appears modern. Noted in the RCHM (Cambridgeshire, 1968). [NB: Rev. Neil Brice, Rector of Orwell St. Andrew's, notes: "According to the guide book [...] the font [...] is a 12th century bowl of freestone with a later medieval stem of clunch"].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Rev. Neil Brice, of Orwell St. Andrew's, for the photographs of this font -- We are also grateful to Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches, for his photograph of this church.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 704527 5780280
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.13512, -0.011418
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 8′ 6.43″ N, 0° 0′ 41.11″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (freestone? [basin] -- clunch? [stem])
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.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: xli, 191