Cambridge No. 7 / Grentebrige

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design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - blind - double arcade (up and down)

Scene Description: on the sides of the shaft

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil - 8

Scene Description: each with a shield in it

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith

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head - 8

Scene Description: some much damaged; are they all human?

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith

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symbol - shield - blank- in a quatrefoil - 8

Scene Description: one on each side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of SS Clement and Athanasios. This church in Bridge Street is shared by Anglo-Catholic and Greek Orthodox congregations."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2007 by Tiger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/538001] [accessed 30 March 2016]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 October 2008 by Scriniary [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1012100] [accessed 30 March 2016]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Portugal Place with the south side and portal of St. Clement's on the left

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 October 2013 by N Chadwick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3854476] [accessed 30 March 2016]

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover - west side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10631CAM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Clement

Church Patron Saints: St. Clement

Church Location: Portugal Place, Cambridge CB2 1UJ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1223 303469

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located on the E side of Bridge Street, Cambridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Cambridge

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle

Century and Period: 15th century [re-cut basin?], Perpendicular [altered?]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: The font at Trumpington, in the same county, very near Cambridge

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are five entries for Cambridge [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4458/cambridge/] [accessed 29 March 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Baptismal font here noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as "octagonal, enriched with quatrefoils and shields, in the style of the fourteenth century". The RCHM (Cambridge, 1959) dates the font to the 15th century. The RCHM (Cambridge, 1959) dates it in the early 15th century but adds "bowl probably recut". The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 3, 1959) notes: "The dedication of this church suggests Danish influence, but the oldest parts of the fabric are late 12th or early 13th century, [...] and it is first mentioned about 1218. In Pevsner (1970): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with two tiers of blank arches on each side of the shaft and a pointed quatrefoil with shield on each side of the bowl."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.20893, 0.118483

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 12′ 32.15″ N, 0° 7′ 6.54″ E

UTM: 31U 303125 5788190

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with mertal decorations and ring handle; probably Victorian

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-03-30 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the city of Cambridge, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1959

Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970