Chettisham

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B01: symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - 8

Scene Description: in deeply-carved panels

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2005, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/chettisham.htm] [accessed 18 October 2007]

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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: notice the damage to the stem, and the size of the latter [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2005, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/chettisham.htm] [accessed 18 October 2007]

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the stem and on the splaying lower volume

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2005, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/chettisham.htm] [accessed 18 October 2007]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2005, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/chettisham.htm] [accessed 18 October 2007]

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view of church interior - plan

Image Source: digital image in the Victoria County History, 2002 [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=21893] [accessed 22 November 2007]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2005, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/chettisham.htm] [accessed 18 October 2007]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01403CHE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels

Church Location: The Hamlet, Chettisham, Ely CB6 1SB

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A10, 3 km NNE of Ely

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Ely 2

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

Century and Period: 14th century [altered], Decorated [altered]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No individual entry for Chettisham fonund in the Domesday survey. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period, a noteworthy example. The Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 4, 2002) notes: "The fabric [of the church] is of late 12th-century date, but was drastically restored in the 19th century [...] The font is of 15th-century date and cup-shaped, with an octagonal bowl having quatrefoils enclosing blank shields on each side". The VCH shows a plan of the church interior with the font located in the centre of the nave, towards the west. Described and illustrated in the Cambridge Churches site: "[the font] is Perpendicular, with an octagonal bowl carved with quatrefoils and shields on the faces. It sits very low because part of the stem has been lost: below the bowl is a break, and the remains of blind arcading on the piece of stem remaining suggest that there was significantly more at one point.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.42766, 0.2709

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 25′ 39.58″ N, 0° 16′ 15.24″ E

UTM: 31U 314454 5812109

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat; probably modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2007-11-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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