Little Eversden / Aueresdone / Auresdone / Euresdone
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the basin looking much restored and re-tooled -- notice the new-stone insert repair to the upper rim
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3149408] [accessed 28 April 2016]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3149375] [accessed 28 April 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Little Eversden: St Helen. A 14th-century church, built of clunch and rubble, seen through winter trees."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Sutton, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 March 2012 by John Sutton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2842690] [accessed 28 April 2016]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, just east of the tower arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Keith Edkins, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2008 by Keith Edkins [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/896434] [accessed 28 April 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the font is visible at the far [west] end of the nave](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160429004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font is visible at the far [west] end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3149396] [accessed 28 April 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3149383] [accessed 28 April 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10028EVE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] [restored] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Helen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Helena
Church Address: 6 Church Lane, Little Eversden, Cambridgeshire CB23 1HQ
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A603, 9 km SW of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Longstowe
Additional Comments: damaged font / restored basin [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for [Great and Little] Eversden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/great-and-little-eversden/] [accessed 28 April 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Paley's Guide (1844) entry for Little Eversden reports: "The font is plain octagonal, of rather large size." Noted in the RCHM (1968) as a restored octagonal basin of the 13th century on a modern base. The Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 5, 1973) notes: "The church of Little Eversden existed apparently in 1229, when Thomas the chaplain of what seems to have been Little Eversden church was party to a dispute about tithes, [...] and certainly in 1254, when Markyate Priory had a pension of 5 marks a year from the rectory. [...] No part of the 13th-century church remains visible, and none of the fabric is apparently older than the earlier 14th century, when the nave and chancel were rebuilt. [...] The font-bowl, which has been restored, is of the 13th century." Described in the Cambridgeshire Churches web site [www.druidic.org/camchurch]: "a 13th century font (which looks like it's starting to crack into pieces)."
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 295301 5783056
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.15998, 0.00723
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 9′ 35.93″ N, 0° 0′ 26.03″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- 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. 1: 165
- 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. 24