Swavesey / Suauesy / Svaveseye
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/swaffhambulbeck.htm] [accessed 9 December 2007]
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design element - architectural - window - hexafoiled - cusped - 8
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Image Source: digital photograph 9 June 2021 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - moulding - piping
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Image Source: digital photograph 9 June 2021 by Colin Smith
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symbol - shield - hanging shield - blank - 8
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design element - architectural - window - Gothic - cusped - 8
Scene Description: each with a hanging blank shield in each -- notice the lines showing the break up of the basin and its repair
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Image Source: digital photograph 9 June 2021 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph 9 June 2021 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/swavesey.htm] [accessed 9 December 2007]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 9 June 2021 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 9 June 2021 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - looking northeast
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/swavesey.htm] [accessed 9 December 2007]
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 9 June 2021 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - moulding - piping
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 9 June 2021 by Colin Smith
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - Ogee arches
Scene Description: some single, some double
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Image Source: digital photograph 9 June 2021 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: graded, on the lower base
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Image Source: digital photograph 9 June 2021 by Colin Smith
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information
Scene Description: posted inside the church
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Image Source: digital photograph 9 June 2021 by Colin Smith
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01421SWA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: 80 Station Road, Swavesey, Cambridgeshire CB4 5QJ
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A14, just SW of Over, 12 km WNW of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Papworth
Additional Comments: damaged font / repaired font (the present font: the basin appears to have broken up into pieces and re-built together again; one of the sides of the upper basin shows damage resulting from the staples of the cover) -- disappeared font? (one from the ca. 1086 church here)
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Swavesey [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3669/swavesey/] [accessed 5 July 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period here, a noteworthy example. Kelly's Directory of this county for 1929 records a Perpendicular font in this church. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with traceried stem and underside of the bowl and cusped panels on the sides of the bowl." The Victoria County History (Cambridge…, vol. 9, 1989) notes: "There was a church at Swavesey, possibly a minster, by the late 11th century when Count Alan, lord of Richmond, gave it to the abbey of St. Sergius and St. Bacchus, Angers (Maine-et-Loire), which had founded a priory there by 1086. […] The church of ST. ANDREW, so called from the late 11th century […] The octagonal font is late medieval, with traceried panels and blank shields." Described and illustrated in the Cambridgeshire Churches web site: "The font is tall and elegant -- a slim Perpendicular octagonal bowl on a long tapering stem." Each panel of the octagonal basin has a decafoil window with a [now] blank shield in it; one of the sides has suffered damage from the rim down consistent with the removal of old iron staples from the cover hardware; the underbowl has thick mouldings (piping) marking the eight sides, the panerls themselves decorated with hexafoil windows; a horizontal moulding marks the upper end of the stem, also octagonal and with the same type of piping at the angles, each panel of the stem with an trefoil arch (some single, some double); the lower base is also octagonal and decorated with graded mouldings. The flat cover is perhaps 19th century, not the original one.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches, and to Colin Smith for their photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 704266 5799183
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.304935, -0.003817
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 18′ 17.77″ N, 0° 0′ 13.74″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with complex metal decoration and handle; Victorian?
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
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1929, [unavailable]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970, p. 469