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design element - motifs - moulding

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01397ORW

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: 2 Fisher's Lane, Orwell, Cambridgeshire SG8 5QX

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located off the A603, 16 km SW of Cambridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Wetherley

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

Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

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.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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"].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.13512, -0.011418

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 8′ 6.43″ N, 0° 0′ 41.11″ W

UTM: 30U 704527 5780280

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-. Accessed: 2011-03-17 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

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