Caxton / Caustone

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INFORMATION
FontID: 01414CAX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Gransden Road, Caxton, Cambridgeshire CB3 8PL
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located on the A1198, just SW of Cambourne, 17 km W of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Longstowe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century [basin only] [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Caxton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3058/caxton/] [accessed 28 April 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period here. The RCHM (Cambridgeshire, 1968) notes: "Font: octagonal limestone bowl, perhaps 13th-century; clunch stem later." The wooden cover is modern. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 5, 1973) notes: "The church [...] is built of field stones and rubble; some loose carved stones inside the church and a few fragments re-used in the aisle wall are the best surviving evidence of the church which Stephen de Scalers gave to Lewes Priory c. 1150. The thick west wall of the nave may also be of the 12th century"; no font is mentioned in the VCH entry. The Papworth Team Churches site [www.papworthteamchurches.org/caxton.htm] [accessed 28 April 2016] notes: "the font, perhaps thirteenth century, has an octagonal limestone bowl".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.20311, -0.09912
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 12′ 11.2″ N, 0° 5′ 56.83″ W
UTM: 30U 698223 5787596
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone [basin only] -- clunch [stem only]
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-04-28 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 historical monuments in the County of Cambridge, Woking; London: Printed in England for Her Majesty's Stationary Office by Unwin Brothers Unlimited, 1968