Trumpington / Trumpinton / Trumpintone

Image copyright © Mark Ynis-Mon, 2004

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Results: 11 records

angel - cherub

Scene Description: at least one

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Mark Ynis-Mon 2004 in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/trumpington.htm] [accessed 14 October 2007]

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design element - architectural - window - cinquefoiled - 32

Scene Description: arranged four per panel (two-up-two-down) on the sides of the octagonal stem

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design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose - in a quatrefoil - in a circle

Scene Description: at least one

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Mark Ynis-Mon 2004 in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/trumpington.htm] [accessed 14 October 2007]

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design element - motifs - floral - square flower - in a quatrefoil - in a circle

Scene Description: at least one

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: forming the background on the chamfered underbowl for the angel and human heads

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human figure - head

Scene Description: a number of them [cf. Font notes]

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human figure - head - 8

Scene Description: one on each side of the upper surface of the splaying octagional lower base [cf. Font notes]

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symbol - shield - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 4?

Scene Description: there appears to be four of them, alternating with four other symbols/motifs around the basin sides

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01422TRU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Michael [RCHM has St. Mary and St. Nicholas]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Michael [RCHM has St. Mary & St. Nicholas]
Church Location: 1 Grantchester Road, Trumpington, Cambridge CB2 2LH
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the M11, just S of Cambridge, and now a suburb of it
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Thriplow
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [19th-century re-cut?], Perpendicular [altered?]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: The font at Cambridge St Clement's [Cambridge No. 7 in this Index]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ben Colburn and Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches, for the information on, and photographs of church and font]
There are five entries for Trumpington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4454/trumpington/] [accessed 23 June 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Baptismal font here noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as "octagonal, enriched with quatrefoils and shields, in the style of the fourteenth century". There is no mention of this font in Paley's Guide of 1844. Cox & Harvey (1907) include the noteworthy baptismal font at Trumpington among the best Perpendicular fonts in the county. Noted, with an illustration in context of the church interior, in the RCHM (Cambridge, 1959) with 15th-century date, though "probably entirely recut in mid 19th-century." Noted and illustrated in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/trumpington.htm] [accessed 14 October 2007]: in addition to the motifs noted in Lysons above, the octagonal font is decorated with an "array of kings, nuns and angels [...] blind panelling on the stem, and lots of little faces on the base". The font appears Perpendicular, rather than Decorated, and among the symbols inscribed in the quatrefoils of the basin sides is a Tudor rose. [NB: the font has an uncomfortable feel of Victorian intervention about it. Was it re-tooled or re-cut in Victorian times, as suggested in the RCHM [cf. supra]? The Victoria County History (Cambridge, vol. 8, 1982) notes: "The church, established by 1200 […] The octagonal font, with quatrefoil panels and head corbels, partly recut, is late 15th-century."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.173771, 0.108476
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 10′ 25.58″ N, 0° 6′ 30.52″ E
UTM: 31U 302286 5784308

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat; date unknown

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-06-23 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 the Historical Monuments in the city of Cambridge, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1959
Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822