Cambridge No. 3 / Grentebrige

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coat of arms - City of Cambridge

Scene Description: seen here on the right panel: "Gules, a bridge, in chief a flower de luce gold between two roses silver on a point wave three boats sable, and to the crest upon the healme on a wreath gold and gules on a mount vert a bridge silver mantled gules doubled silver" [NB: it lacks the usual 'hippocampi' that would complete the city's arms in the 1575 description: "[...] the Arms supported by two Neptunes horses the upper part gules the nether part proper finned gold"

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 4 July 2021)

coat of arms - City of London

Scene Description: seen here on the left southwest] panel: "Argent a cross gules, in the first quarter a sword in pale point upwards of the last."

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Jo Edkins

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 Feb 2011)

coat of arms - France?

Scene Description: "Azure, three fleurs-de-lis or", seen here on the left panel

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 4 July 2021)

coat of arms - Peterhouse (Cambridge college)

Scene Description: seen here on the centre panel: the 1575 description is "Or four pallets Gules within a border of the last charged with eight ducal coronets of the first", but the arms seen here are the later three-pallet version offcially adopted in 1935

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 4 July 2021)

coat of arms - See of Ely

Scene Description: seen here in the centre [south] panel: "Gules, three ducal coronets or"

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Jo Edkins

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 Feb 2011)

coat of arms - University of Cambridge

Scene Description: seen here on the left panel: "Gules, on a cross ermine between four lions passant guardant Or, a Bible lying fesseways of the field, clasped and garnished of the third, the clasps in base"

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 4 July 2021)

design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Jo Edkins

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 Feb 2011)

design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Jo Edkins

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symbol - shield -- crossed keys

Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel, two crossed keys in saltire [NB: may be associated with Peterhouse]

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 4 July 2021)

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2009 by Robert Edwards [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1508066] [accessed 31 March 2016]

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view of church exterior - west façade

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 4 July 2021)

view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: wuth tha baptismal font at the far end of the centre aisle

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 4 July 2021)

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "In the Church of St Mary the Less in Cambridge. Looking towards the west end of the church." -- the font is visible at the far end

Image Source: digital photograph 19 March 2014 by Roger Kidd [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3933705] [accessed 31 March 2016]

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view of font - east side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church Font. St. Mary the Less in Trumpington Street. This small church dates back to the 12th century. It is also known as Little St. Mary and was originally called St. Peter-without-Trumpington-Gate."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2009 by Scriniary [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1800177] [accessed 31 March 2016]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Jo Edkins

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 1 Feb 2011)

view of font and cover - south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Jo Edkins

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover in context - north side

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover in context - south side

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 4 July 2021)

view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith

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view of font cover - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 4 July 2021)

INFORMATION

FontID: 01411CAM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Less [aka Little St. Mary's] [formerly St Peter outside Trumpington gates, chapel of Peterhouse College]

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin [originally St. Peter]

Church Location: Trumpington St, Cambridge CB2 1RB

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located on Trumpington Street, near Peterhouse College, of which it was a chapel in early days

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Cambridge

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

Century and Period: 14th century [altered?], Early Perpendicular [altered]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font, and to Jo Edkins for her photograph of this font

Church Notes: 14th-century hall church and 15th century brasses.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period here, a noteworthy example. The RCHM (Cambridge, 1959) notes and illustrates the 14th-century font and its 17th-century cover; the arms on the font are notes as: "the University, See of Ely, City of London (twice), Cambridge town, and Peterhouse, two blank)". The RCHM (ibid.) notes the date, 1632, and the initials W.C., I.B. and I.D. on the oak cover. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 3, 1959) notes: "The history of St. Peter [outside Trmpington] supplies the instance of a church reported to be served by the founder and his kin. In 1207 a jury found that one Langlin had held the church and had been its parson, and had given it to his kinsman Segar 'secundum quod tunc fuit mos civitatis Cantebr'; that Segar had held it and served it for 60 years, and then given it to his son Henry, who was parson there for a like term, and that Henry gave it to St. John's Hospital, apparently about 1197. [...] This would, if correct, carry the beginnings of the church back to before Domesday. The church was appropriated to the hospital by Bishop Eustace (1198–1215) [...] By 1340 the church was old and ruinous and the scholars were worshipping in the college. By 1352 it had been entirely rebuilt, on an extended site, and it was rededicated to the Virgin Mary." Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with shields. The cover ogee-domed with arabesques, is of 1632." The octagonal basin has brightly-painted shields inscribed in Ogee panels on the sides, one of which is the arms of Cambridge; similar panels, though blank, decorate the underbowl chamfer ; the octagonal pedestal base has shallow-relief window tracery. The octagonal medium-domed cover has decorated angle ribs, as indicated in Pevsner [cf. supra] and foliage motifs on the rectangular panels of the lower sides; it is provided with a lifting mechanism.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.201026, 0.117961

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 12′ 3.7″ N, 0° 7′ 4.66″ E

UTM: 31U 303055 5787313

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1632 / 17th-century

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: yes; pulley

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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