Whittlesford / Witelesforde

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design element - motifs - piping

Scene Description: moulded edges all around the basin sides

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004 in Cambridgeshire Churches [www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/whittlesford.htm] [accessed 14 October 2007]

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view of base - detail

Scene Description: some of the columns appear to be replacements of the originals

Image Source: digital photographed taken 28 July 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004 in Cambridgeshire Churches [www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/whittlesford.htm] [accessed 14 October 2007]

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view of church exterior - tower - detail

Image Source: digital image in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1074/] [accessed 26 May 2016]

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view of church exterior - tower - detail

Image Source: digital image in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1074/] [accessed 26 May 2016]

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view of church exterior - tower - detail - Sheela Na Gig

Scene Description: right under the clock

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004 in Cambridgeshire Churches [www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/whittlesford.htm] [accessed 14 October 2007]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Whittlesford church, interior. [...] There are traces of a wall painting on the further arch, and two panels of commandments flank the nearer one - there are matching panels holding the Lord's Prayer and the Apostles' Creed on the west wall of the church."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 April 2008 by Keith Edkins [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/763643] [accessed 26 May 2016]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004 in Cambridgeshire Churches [www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/whittlesford.htm] [accessed 14 October 2007]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photographed taken 28 July 2009 by Janice Tostevin

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken in 1993 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1150113] [accessed 26 May 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01400WHI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Andrew

Church Location: Church Lane, Whittlesford CB22 4NX

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A1301, 14 km S of Cambridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Whittlesford

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

Date: ca. 1200?

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches, and to Janice Tostevin for their photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: Sheela-na-gig and "horny" beast carving on the S wall of the church, right under the clock

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Whittlesford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4748/whittlesford/] [accessed 26 May 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Paley's Guide (1844) entry has: "The font is square, on five shafts, date a little before A.D.1200." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Noted in Kelly's Directory of the county (1929) as a Norman font. Pevsner (1970) notes: "Font. Square, C13. On four supports." [NB: it actually has five shafts on the base]. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 6, 1978) notes: "The thick north wall of the nave survives, with one round-headed window, and the lower stage of the tower, with four such windows. The south window is surrounded by linear carvings of grotesque creatures. [...] he plain square font is 13th-century." Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2016). Illustrated in Cambridge Churches (2004). Peter Spufford, in his brief history of this church [www.whittlesford.info/index_files/Page298.htm] [accessed 14 October 2007] writes that "A new font was also placed in the church in the thirteenth century", at the time of the expansion of the original Norman church.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.115729, 0.150723

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 6′ 56.62″ N, 0° 9′ 2.6″ E

UTM: 31U 304920 5777740

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Diameter (inside rim): 56 cm*

Basin Total Height: 42 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 66 x 68.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2016)

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-05-26 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

Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1929

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, The Ecclesiologist's guide to the churches within a circuit of seven miles round Cambridge, with introductory remarks, London; Cambridge: J. van Voorst; Metcalfe and Palmer, 1844

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970