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

Results: 6 records

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 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

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

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01413CAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Church Road, Carlton, Cambridgeshire CB8 9LA
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the B1052, 10-12 km S of Newmarket
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Radfield
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the early-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches, for the photographs of church and font

COORDINATES

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

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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 188
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970, p. 313