Cambridge No. 5 / Grentebrige

There are five entries for Cambridge [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4458/cambridge/] [accessed 29 March 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Bond (1908) cites the diary of the infamous Dowsing, who recorded in it his having removed a dove "from the high loft of the font." [i.e., presumably the finial of the font cover]. The RCHM (Cambridge, 1959) notes: "plain octagonal bowl with moulded under-edge, octagonal stem and octagonal to square base, 15th-century, one gace of bowl retooled." Th Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 3, 1959) notes: "St. Giles' Church contains traces of work that may be earlier than 1092, [...] the traditional date of its foundation by Picot in fulfilment of his wife's vow. [...] Its fabric was extensively remodelled in the early 19th century by the vicar, Professor William Farish, who enlarged the accommodation from 100 to 600 seats. [...] The resulting 'strange and repulsive medley' [...] was in its turn destroyed in 1875, when the present church was built, in which the only traces of the original church are the 11th-century chancel arch, and the 12th-century south doorway of the nave"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry]. There is no font mentioned in Pevsner (1970).