Madingley / Madingelei / Madinglei

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches

Scene Description: above the band of saw-tooh motif

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2016

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1387/] [accessed 29 June 2016]

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design element - motifs - ball - 5

Scene Description: arranged vertically on the east angle of the north face of the basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2014

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 9 October 2014 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4212254] [accessed 29 June 2016]

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design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet

Scene Description: several, included one at the centre of one of the 3-petal flowers

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2014

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 9 October 2014 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4212254] [accessed 29 June 2016]

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design element - motifs - chevron

Scene Description: below the saltire cross

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2014

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 9 October 2014 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4212254] [accessed 29 June 2016]

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design element - motifs - chevron

Scene Description: arranged in several rows and forming a zig-zag pattern

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design element - motifs - floral - 3-petal - 2

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2014

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 9 October 2014 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4212254] [accessed 29 June 2016]

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design element - motifs - floral - 4

Scene Description: seen here on the left panel: two rectangular floral motifs with many radiating petals from a bead centre, and two 4-petal floral motifs with bead in the centre and in the spaces between the petals; all arranged in in the four quartes of this side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2014

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 9 October 2014 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4212254] [accessed 29 June 2016]

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design element - motifs - floral - 4-petal

Scene Description: irregular

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2014

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: framing the two sides of the chevron pattern

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design element - motifs - rope moulding - vertical

Scene Description: broad, like a braid, at both angles

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2014

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 9 October 2014 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4212254] [accessed 29 June 2016]

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design element - motifs - sawtooth

Scene Description: a band of, underneath the intersecting arches

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symbol - cross - saltire

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2014

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 9 October 2014 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4212254] [accessed 29 June 2016]

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view of basin - east side

Scene Description: seen here on the right

view of basin - northeast side

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view of basin - south side

Scene Description: seen here on the left

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2014

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view of basin - west side

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 9 October 2014 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4212256] [accessed 29 June 2016]

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view of church exterior - north view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/madingley.htm] [accessed 11 November 2007]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/madingley.htm] [accessed 11 November 2007]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font -- west side

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view of font and cover - southeast side

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view of font and cover - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, Madingley church. Late Norman according to the guide leaflet. It may have been transferred in Tudor times from a church at Histon."6]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Keith Edkins, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 November 2008 by Keith Edkins [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1043006] [accessed 29 June 2016]

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/madingley.htm] [accessed 11 November 2007]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10044MAD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene [originally St. Mary]
Church Location: Church Lane, Madingley, Cambridgeshire CB23 8AQ
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A428, 6-7 km NW of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Northstowe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W side of the N nave
Date: ca. 1200? [basin only] -- 13th - 14th century (?) [base only]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only] -- 13th - 14th century [base only], Medieval
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ben Colburn and Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches, www.druidic.org, for their information on, and photographs of this church and font.
There are two entries for Madingley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3960/madingley/] [accessed 29 June 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL3950460336] (1962) reports a "Font C12 of stone. Square bowl with sides divided into panel and carved with chevron tooth and interlaced arcading. One C13 stem, square with angle shafts." The font here is noted and illustrated in the RCHM (Cambridgeshire, 1968): "Font [...]: with square bowl divided into rectilinear panels carved with cheveron, interlaced arcading , tooth ornament, etc.; stem of same dimensions having angle shafts with moulded caps and bases; bowl 12th-century, stem 13th- or 14th-century; perhaps from St. Ethelreda's, Histon." The Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 9, 1989) notes: "About 1090 Picot the sheriff gave Madingley church with all its lands and tithes to his newly founded priory, soon removed to Barnwell, to which his successor Pain Peverel and the bishop of Lincoln shortly confirmed it […] The existing fabric was gradually rebuilt from east to west in the 13th and early 14th century. […] The square 12th-century bowl of the font, crudely carved with abstract patterns, presumably comes from an earlier building. It was probably removed to the Hall in 1779 [...] but returned by Henry Hurrell c. 1875." The CRSBI (2016) traces a presence of a font at this church from 1662, and that "the present bowl was discovered broken in half at Madingley Hall by Col. Harding, who bought the property in 1905. He had it restored and set on its present pedestal." [NB: Shipley's article of 1912 in 'Country Life' mentions that "in 1874 [...] the Norman font was placed in Madingley Church, where it now is"] There are other opinions about the provenance of the font, as well as doubts about its Romanesque pedigree, for instance in Pevsner (1970), who is inclined to believe that it is a 17th-century font "trying to imitate the Norman style". The author at the CRSBI entry [Ron Baxter?] states that he "is inclined to accept it as a 12thc. piece, the presence of dogtooth implying a date towards 1200". The basin at Madingley is certainly rather uncharacteristic of the Norman period, an odd mixture of helix-like floral motifs, saltire crosses, chevron, beading etc. that decorates the sides of the roughly square basin; the south side, for example uses motifs that appear in fonts of the early 14th century in the Comminges region of France [see for example the fonts at Cazères and Lias in this Index]. The later base [cf. supra] is quadrangular with colonnottes carved at the angles. The metal and wood cover is also modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.223331, 0.04113
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 13′ 23.99″ N, 0° 2′ 28.07″ E
UTM: 31U 297907 5790004

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Drainage Notes: lead lined well
Diameter (inside rim): 48.5 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 36 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 117 cm* [includes modern base and plinth]
Trapezoidal Basin: 60 x 66 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2016)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood and metal,
Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-03-17 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2004-09-09 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.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
Lloyd, A.H., "The Parish Church of Madingley", 1931, Cambridge Antiquarian Society Proceedings and Communications, 1931
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970
Shipley, A.E., "Madingley Hall, Cambridgeshire: the Residence of Colonel T.W. Harding", XXXII (Oct. 5th, 1912), Country Life, 1912, pp. 454-465; r["References"]