Kingston nr. Cambridge / Chingestone

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/kingston.htm] [accessed 11 October 2007]

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - pinnacled - crocketed - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of font and cover in context

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view of church interior - north aisle

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view of base

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/kingston.htm] [accessed 11 October 2007]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01407KIN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Cognate Fonts: somewhat similar fonts at Barnack (Cambs.) and Standon (Herts.)

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints and St. Andrew

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

Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints & St. Andrew

Church Notes: 13thC church re-built late-15thC after fire; restored 1894 and 1930

Church Address: Church Lane, North East Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB3 7NG

Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B1046, 13 km WSW of Cambridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Longstowe

Additional Comments: altered font? (basin 13thC on 14thC stem -- was part of the stem stuffed with mortar [as Paley (1844) claims? / was the base cut? cf. FontNotes] / damaged font: basin is badly broken and the pieces put together again -- disappeared font? (the one from the late-11thC church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

There are seven entries for this Kingston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3455/kingston/] [accessed 16 May 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Lysons (1806-1833) write: "The font at Kingston is in the style of the early Gothic; it is octagonal, standing on eight short pillars, over which are trefoil arches enriched with crockets". Noted in Paley's Guide (1844): "The font is Decorated, and perhaps one of the best of this period in Cambridgeshire. It is octagonal, and stands on low shafts supporting trefoiled arches with crocketed canopies. There is probably a central stem, but the inside of the arches is stuffed with mortar." Cox & Harvey (1907) include the noteworthy baptismal font at Kingston among the best Decorated fonts in the county. Noted in Kelly's Directory of the county for 1929: "a Decorated font with octagonal basin, supported on low shafts with trefoiled arches under crocketed canopies". Noted and illustrated in the RCHM (Cambridgeshire, 1968), which reports the stem as a later addition. Pevsner (1970) writes: "Font. Could not the octagonal stem with its shafts and crocketed cusped gables be the bowl of an early C14 font?". The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 5, 1973) notes: "Kingston probably had a church before 1092, for Picot the sheriff granted two-thirds of the tithes of his knights in Kingston to the canons of St. Giles, Cambridge, later Barnwell Priory. [...] Nothing remains visible of an 11th-century church, and the earliest surviving fabric suggests an extensive rebuilding in the 13th century"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry. Described and illustrated in Cambridgeshire Churches (2005): "a survival from the Decorated church, and unusual for that period [...]". [NB: another 13th-century font of related design is found at Standon, in Hertfordshire [it should be pointed out here that these two counties are contiguous], and Gatton, in Surrey, is an example of a similar13th-century plain octagonal basin on a more complex base. Basins of this type with little or no decoration are also carved in the 14th century, with examples at Lapworth and Wootton Wawen, both in Warwickshire, for instance [both of these have underbowls decorated with human heads, though]]. The basin has been broken at some point in the past and the pieces cemented together].

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ben Colburn and Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches [www.druidic.org/camchurch/] for the information on, and photographs of church and font.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 702888 5785249

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.180341, -0.032366

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 10′ 49.23″ N, 0° 1′ 56.52″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat; modern

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. 187-188
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: xlii, 154 and pl. 5
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1929, [unavailable]
Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822, vol. II: p. 60
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, p. 19
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970, p. 417