Whaddon nr. Royston / Wadone / Wadune

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coat of arms - D'Eschallers family

Scene Description: 'Scales'? / 'Scalariis'? / Descalers? -- on the east side of the font [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Nigel Strudwick on 23 December 2007

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design element - architectural - window - trefoiled - 8

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

Scene Description: one of them has a charged shield in it

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view of basin - east side - detail

Scene Description: the arms of the D'Eschallers [cf. Font notes]

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view of basin - interior

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view of basin - upper view - detail

Scene Description: notice the repair/insert

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/whaddon.htm] [accessed 19 December 2007]

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of church interior - looking west

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view of font

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view of font - upper view

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view of font in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01424WHA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 127 Church Street, Whaddon, Cambridgeshire SG8 5RX

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A1198, 6 km N of Royston, 18 km SSW of Cambridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Arringford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the N aisle

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ben Colburn and Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches, for their information on this font, and for the photographs of the church. We are also grateful to Nigel Strudwick, of Whaddon, Cambs., for his photographs of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are nine entries for this Whaddon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3446/whaddon/] [accessed 8 June 2016], none of which mention a church in it; two of the entries, however, mention a priest as lord: "Thorbert the priest" was lord of one part in 1066, under the overlordship of Earl Algar and Archbishop Stigand; Ralph, the priest, became lord in 1086 of the part tenanted by Count Alan of Brittany [NB: although no church is mentioned it is quite likely a church or two did exist here at the time. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period here. Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with blank arches on the stem and pointed quatrefoil panels on the bowl. Only one of them, that pointing E, has a shield. It contains the arms of the d'Eschallers family" [NB: perhaps the 'Scales' family? (descendants of Hardwinus de Scalariis?) -- cf. 'Cambridgeshire', LoveToKnow 1911 Online Encyclopedia. © 2003, 2004 LoveToKnow -- http://64.1911encyclopedia.org/C/CA/CAMBRIDGESHIRE.htm)]. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 8, 1982) notes: "There was presumably a church in 1086, when Ralph the priest held land in Whaddon. [...] The [present] chancel and the chancel arch, which has some dog-tooth moulding, date from the late 13th century. The nave and tower were rebuilt in the later 14th century"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry. Noted in the Cambridgeshire Churches (2004): "at the end of the north aisle, there is a contemporary [i.e., Perpendicular] font. Like the other 15th century work here, it is relatively plain: the only decoration is sober panelling on the shaft and seven faces of the bowl. The eighth, which faces east, has a carving of the shield of the d'Eschallers family, who were lords of the manor here between the Norman Conquest and the 15th century". [We are grateful to Ben Colburn and Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches, for their information on this font, and for the photographs of the church]. The Whaddon Church guide [http://whaddon.org/church/church_guide.html] [accessed 19 December 2007] notes: "The font, by the north door, is octagonal in shape and bears the arms of the de Scalers on the eastern face. It would appear to have been without a cover at some time as in a visitation in 1685 it was reported: 'At Whaddon the font wants Cover and Plugge' " [NB: there may have existed an earlier font in the 13th-century original church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.100377, -0.030777

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 6′ 1.36″ N, 0° 1′ 50.8″ W

UTM: 30U 703360 5776362

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat, octagonal and plain; probably modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-06-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970