Little Shelford / Scelford / Scelforde
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05450SHE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: 5 Church Street, Little Shelford, Cambridgeshire CB2 5HG
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located 6-8 km S of Cambridge, just W of Great Shelford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Thriplow
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, built into the pier of the belfry arch
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Cognate Fonts: The font at Great Abingdon is also built the same way; also possibly the old one at Crowland abbey
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are six entries for [Great and Little] Shelford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/great-and-little-shelford/] [accessed 21 June 2016], two of which mention a church in it. A font here is noted in Paley (1844), and in his Guide of the same year: "belfry-arch, against the southern jamb of which stands a Decorated octagonal font, on a stem and four engaged shafts." Described in Kelly's county directory of 1900 (p. 184): "the font is Decorated, and consists of an octagonal basin on four engaged shafts" [cited in http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CAM/LittleShelford/index.html [accessed 4 November 2007]. Bond (1908) quotes Paley. Stockner (1997) dates it to the 12th or 13th century. The Victoria County History (Cambridge…, vol. 8, 1982) notes: "The church at Shelford which had belonged to the monks of Ely and had been seized by 1086 by Hardwin de Scalers […] was probably Little Shelford church. […] Part of the nave north wall, including a doorway and window, survives from a 12th-century building […] The octagonal stone font dates from the early 14th century."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.144027,
0.122417
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 8′ 38.5″ N,
0° 7′ 20.7″ E
UTM: 31U 303107 5780963
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-06-21 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, The Ecclesiologist's guide to the churches within a circuit of seven miles round Cambridge, with introductory remarks, London; Cambridge: J. van Voorst; Metcalfe and Palmer, 1844
Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; r["References"]