Swaffham Bulbeck / Suafam / Suafham / Svafam

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 August 1993 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1151342] [accessed 20 July 2016]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 August 1993 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1151342] [accessed 20 July 2016]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 August 1993 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1151342] [accessed 20 July 2016]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/swaffhambulbeck.htm] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font ivisible at the W end

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/swaffhambulbeck.htm] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: FONT+COVER digital image of a photograph taken 28 August 1993 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1151342] [accessed 20 July 2016] CO2009

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 28 August 1993 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1151342] [accessed 20 July 2016]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/swaffhambulbeck.htm] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10046SAW

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: High Street, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire CB5 0LX

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located off the B1102, between Bottisham (SW) andf Swaffham Prior (NE), 14 km E of Cambridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Staine

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, W end

Century and Period: 13th century, Early English

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches, for the photographs of this church.

Church Notes: original church pre-1200; re-built 13thC; modified 14th, 15th, 16th, 19thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are nine entries for Swaffham [Bulbeck and Prior] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/swaffham-bulbeck-and-prior/] [accessed 20 July 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The RCHM (1972) notes: "Font: octagonal bowl and stem with moulded cap and base, standing on a chamfered sub-base, 13th-century." Noted in the Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 10, 2002) notes: "In the 12th century the church probably belonged to the Bolbec manor until it was given, probably shortly before c. 1200, to endow the newly founded Swaffham priory. […] The earliest surviving part is the four-stage west tower, probably early 13th-century […] The octagonal font is 13th-century". Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin raised on an octagonal pedestal base and located at the W end of the nave. The Gentleman's Magazine (issue for December 1842, p. 641) reports of a 10 November meeting of the Cambridge Camden Society in which "The Committee are having a beautiful Font cover executed, at the expense of the Incumbent, by the Society's woodcarver".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.236203, 0.276348

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 14′ 10.33″ N, 0° 16′ 34.85″ E

UTM: 31U 314023 5790806

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: ca. 1842 / Victorian

Material: wood,

Apparatus: yes

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2007-12-09 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