Caxton / Caustone
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2004 by mym [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3282] [accessed 28 April 2016]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © JThomas, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2012 by JThomas [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3085494] [accessed 28 April 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01414CAX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 15th century [basin only] [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Gransden Road, Caxton, Cambridgeshire CB3 8PL
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: altered font / composite font (the present one) request for photo sent to Team contact (28 April 2016) -- disappeared font? (the one from the mid-12thC(?) church here
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
UTM: 30U 698223 5787596
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.20311, -0.09912
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 12′ 11.2″ N, 0° 5′ 56.83″ W
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 188
- 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, vol. 1: 36