Cambridge No. 7 / Grentebrige
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 27 June 2021)
Results: 10 records
view of font and cover
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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
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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
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Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith
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human figure - head - 8
Scene Description: some much damaged; are they all human?
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Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
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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."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tiger, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 August 2007 by Tiger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/538001] [accessed 30 March 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Scriniary, 2008
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 - south view
Scene Description: Portugal Place with the south side and portal of St. Clement's on the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © N Chadwick, 2013
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 - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith
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design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - blind - double arcade (up and down)
Scene Description: on the sides of the shaft
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 6 June 2021 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 27 June 2021)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10631CAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 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
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Clement
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Clement
Church Address: Portugal Place, Cambridge CB2 1UJ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1223 303469
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the E side of Bridge Street, Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Cambridge
Additional Comments: altered font? (re-cut basin?) -- disappeared font? (the one from the original 12th-13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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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."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 303125 5788190
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.20893, 0.118483
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 12′ 32.15″ N, 0° 7′ 6.54″ E
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-. 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, vol. 1: cxi; vol. 2: 271
- 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, vol. II: p. 60
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970, p. 224