Carlton nr. Cambridge / Carlentone / Carleton / Carlton-cum-Willingham

Results: 6 records

design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped - 8

Scene Description: each with a shield in it

design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: on the stem

symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - 8

view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, [2005?]

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon [ca. 2005], in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/carlton.htm] [accessed 17 October 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font at the back

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, [2005?]

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon [ca. 2005], in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/carlton.htm] [accessed 17 October 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, [2005?]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon [ca. 2005], in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/carlton.htm] [accessed 17 October 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 01413CAM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Road, Carlton, Cambridgeshire CB8 9LA
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B1052, 10-12 km S of Newmarket
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Radfield
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches, for the photographs of church and font
There are five entries for this Carlton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL6453/carlton/] [accessed 18 May 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period, a noteworthy example here. Pevsner (1970) writes: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with traceried stem and bowl with shields in cusped quatrefoils." The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 6, 1978) notes: "Carlton church was probably included in William de Warenne's endowment of Lewes priory, [...] to which Archbishop Ralph confirmed it in 1121. [...] The thick nave walls are probably 12th-century, part of a window reveal of that period surviving. Spirally carved shafts re-used as window-mullions may come from a Norman doorway. [...] New north and west windows were inserted in the nave in the 15th century, when also a crown-post roof was built over the nave, the chancel arch and two-bay chancel were rebuilt, perhaps on a wider scale than before, and a new font was procured." Noted in Cambridgeshire Churches (2005) as 15th-century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.150339, 0.398265
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 9′ 1.22″ N, 0° 23′ 53.75″ E
UTM: 31U 322003 5780952

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2005-02-23 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970