Papworth St. Agnes / Papeswerd / Papeuuorda / Papeuuorde / Papeworde

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Results: 9 records

CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: a thick one, around the tops of the columns of the stem

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LB01: design element - architectural - column

Scene Description: clustered columns form the stam of the base

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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: a thin one at the top of the block, anther one lower down, like a fold

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view of basin

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view of church exterior - north view

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Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/papworthagnes.htm] [accessed 21 November 2007]

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font

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view of font

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Image Source: www.papworthstagnes.org.uk

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10045PAP
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [formerly St. Peter's]
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist [earlier, St. Peter?; later, St. Agnes?; now St. John]
Church Location: Papworth St Agnes, Cambridgeshire CB23 3QU
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off the A1198, about 10 km S of Huntingdon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Eli
Historical Region: Hundred of Papworth
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com for the photograph of this font.We are grateful to Colin Hinson of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com for the photograph of this font.
Church Notes: The church has been redundant for many years but is used for occasional services, meetings, etc., and looked after by a local trust [cf. the Cambridgeshire Churches web site for details]
There are eight entries for Papworth [Everard and St Agnes] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/papworth-everard-and-st-agnes/] [accessed 5 July 2016]; there is no mention of a church in any of the entries but two of the them has priests as lords in 1066, Aelfric and Godwin, which probably means there were two pre-Conquest churches there. The RCHM (1968) reported "in the churchyard on S[outh] side: shallow octagonal bowl on shaped and moulded quatrefoil stem; 13th-century." The Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 9, 1989) notes: "The church, recorded by 1217 […] The church was called from the 13th century (fn. 86) to the 16th after St. Peter, whose image stood in the chancel c. 1540. (fn. 87) From the mid 18th century it was called ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST […] plain octagonal medieval font was placed in the churchyard when a new one was given c. 1890" [NB: the font has since been moved inside the church]. The baptismal font consists of three parts: apparently octagonal, but actually square, with broadly chamfered corners, basin with rounded edges and plain sides; the basin is raised on a base made of clustered columns below a moulding all around; there are traces of some carving on the sides of this block, but it is too weathered for any motif to be discernible; the lower block has a thin roll moulding all around and splays out below it, keeping to the contour of the columns of the middle block; below that, the sides are vertical and plain; the upper rim of the basin shows signs of damage, perhaps related to the staples of the cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.263841, -0.141364
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 15′ 49.83″ N, 0° 8′ 28.91″ W
UTM: 30U 695071 5794234

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: square (mounted) [chamfered angles]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square [chamfered angles]
Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2007-11-21 00:00:00. 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