Duxford No. 1 / Dochesuuorde / Dodesuuorde / Duxworth

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design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 4

Scene Description: at the angles of the square base; parts much damaged
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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the composite font and its modern cover
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INFORMATION

FontID: 10024DUX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Chapel Street, Duxford, Cambridgeshire CB2 4RJ
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located SE of the M11-A505 junction, 17 km S of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Whittlesford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [basin] -- 14th century [base] [composite font], Medieval / composite
Font Notes:
There are five entries for this Duxford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4746/duxford/] [accessed 19 May 2016], none of which mention cleric or church in it. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL4806045982] (1967) notes: "Font C12 chamfered square bowl on solid clunch base with attached columns at each corner and with two crudely carved traceried panels." Pevsner (1970) writes: "Bowl square, chamfered, plain. Stem with angle shafts and some primitive C14 tracery decoration. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 6, 1978) notes: "Duxford is an instance [...] of a single township anomalously containing two parish churches, each with its own incumbent. The duplication probably arose from the separate foundation before c. 1200 [...] of churches at the northern and southern ends of the village by the lords of the two manors to which the two advowsons were at first annexed, that of St. John's belonging to Lacy's manor, that of St. Peter's to Bustelers. [...] The tower is 12th-century and has two round-arched belfry-windows in each face. It opens to the nave by a wide, low arch. The chancel retains one 12th-century window in the north wall. [...] The font is probably 12th-century." Described in the Cambridgeshire Churches web site [www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/duxfordpeter.htm] [accessed 21 October 2007: "The font, though, is interesting -- a very gnarly 14th century stem with an earlier font" [i.e., basin].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.08981, 0.161738
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 5′ 23.32″ N, 0° 9′ 42.26″ E
UTM: 31U 305561 5774828

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: square and flat, with chamfered corners; metal decoration and ring handle; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-05-19 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970