Cambridge No. 2 / Grentebrige

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angel - demi-figure - 8

Scene Description: at the angles of the underbowl

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Image Source: digital image of a ca.1840 photograph posted by livre in eBay [www.ebay.co.uk/itm/c1840-St-Edwards-Church-Cambridge-font-/141566603761] [accessed 30 March 2016]

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design element - motifs - floral - 8

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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 8

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 24?

Scene Description: three on each side of the basin, just below the rim

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design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: mostly encircled quatrefoils

view of church exterior - east view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Magnus Manske, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 April 2009 by Magnus Manske [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Edward_King_and_Martyr,_Cambridge_(exterior).jpg] [accessed 30 March 2016]

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view of church exterior - west tower

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Edward's Church is hemmed in by bookshops, so getting a long view of its tower is rather difficult."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ben Harris, 2008

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Edward King and Martyr, interior. The pointed arches in the nave date from a reconstruction around 1400. The east window is 19th century, by G. Gilbert Scott."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Keith Edkins, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2014 by Keith Edkins [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4166433] [accessed 30 March 2016]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: ca. 1840 -- the font was raised on a two-step plinth, the upper step decorated with encircled quatrefoils on the sides; the old cover is no longer in use and the font was restored before 1959 [cf. FontNotes]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the completly restored font [o, is it?] on a new plinth and with a new cover in 2014 -- the font had been restored by the Cambridge Camden Sociey in 1842, "being a complete restoration of the 15th-century font, much decayed, previously here".

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01410CAM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Edward King and Martyr
Church Patron Saints: St. Edward the Cofessor
Church Location: Peas Hill, Cambridge
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located on St. Edward's Passage, between King's Parade and Peas Hill, N side of the Guildhall
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Cambridge
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, on the S side
Century and Period: 15th century [19th-century restoration], Perpendicular [altered?]
Church Notes: Slender nave arcades c.1400; pulpit c. 1510; chair 1500.
There are five entries for Cambridge [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4458/cambridge/] [accessed 29 March 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Gentleman's Magazine (issue for December 1842: 640) reports of a metting of the Committee of the Cambridge Camden Society in which it is noted that "the Font of St. Edward's, Cambridge, has been furnished with a carved cover; and the artist who executed it, Mr. Groom, has been named Wood Carved for the Society." A notice of the works printed by Joseph Masters of London (in Poole [1848), back pages] offers for sale: "A lithograph of the font and cover in the Church of St. Edward the Confessor, Cambridge, (as restored by the Cambridge Camden Society.) 1s. 6d.; India paper 2s." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period, a noteworthy example. Noted in the RCHM (Cambridge, 1959) as a present from the Cambridge Camden Sociey in 1842, "being a complete restoration of the 15th-century font, much decayed, previously here". The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 3, 1959) notes: "An Anglo-Saxon origin for this church is suggested not only by the dedication but by the finding of a Saxon coffin stone on the site in this century, [...] but the earliest part of the present structure goes back no further than the second half of the 12th century"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry. Pevsner (1970) notes: "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with quatrefoils in circles on the sides of the bowl. The angles are carried by demi-figures of angels. Shaft with blank tracery panels. All drastically restored. The font was presented by the Cambridge Camden Society."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.204388, 0.118692
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 12′ 15.8″ N, 0° 7′ 7.29″ E
UTM: 31U 303119 5787684

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: ca. 1842
Material: wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-03-30 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 the Historical Monuments in the city of Cambridge, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1959
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970
Poole, George Ayliffe, A History of Ecclesiastical Architecture in England, London: Printed by Joseph Masters, 1848