Stow cum Quy / Quy

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view of church exterior - north view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2012 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2968051] [accessed 19 July 2016]
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 May 2012 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2968049] [accessed 19 July 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 07403QUY
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: 15 B1102, Stow cum Quy, Cambridgeshire CB5 9AD
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1102, just N of the A303, 7 km ENE of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Staine
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
There are two entries for this Stow in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL5260/stow/] [accessed 19 July 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. A Perpendicular font in this church is noted in Paley's Guide (1844). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. Described and illustrated n the RCHM (1972): "Font: octagonal bowl with octofiil panels enclosing blank shields, supported by half-angels and with an octagonal stem enriched with trefoil-headed panels, standing on a high moulded base; 15th-century". The Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 10, 2002) notes: "From the 12th-century nave survives part of a small round-headed window over the south arcade. […] he octagonal font, with panels containing shields supported by demi-angels, is 15thcentury." Described in the Cambridgeshire Chuirches web site [www.druidic.org/camchurch/]: "a solid 15th century octagonal bowl sitting on winged angel heads. You don't see many of them here in Cambridgeshire, though the design is very common over the border in Suffolk."

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 309911 5788744
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.216285, 0.217356
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 12′ 58.63″ N, 0° 13′ 2.48″ E

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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 188
  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Cambridge, Woking; London: Printed in England for Her Majesty's Stationary Office by Unwin Brothers Unlimited, 1968, vol. 2: 93
  • 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, p. 3