Waresley / Wedreslei / Wereslai / Werisleg / Werisley

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 February 2007 by Martin John Bishop [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/331410] [accessed 24 April 2012]

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font; the modern cover behind the font

Image Source: digital photograph by Brentorboxer [www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM85QV_Font_St_James_Church_Waresley_Cambridgeshire_UK] [accessed 24 April 2012]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font and cover at the west end of the nave

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10687WAR

Church/Chapel: Old Parish Church of St. James the Great [earlier St. Andrew's] [destroyed in 1724]

Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder] [the earlier church had been originally dedicated to St. Andrew]

Church Location: Waresley, Cambridgeshire SG19 3BS

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located on the B1040, just S of the crossing with the B1046, 4 km NE of Gamlingay, SW of Cambridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: formerly Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Toseland

Century and Period: 11th century, Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 2, 1932) notes: "The church and priest of Waresley are mentioned in Domesday Book (1086) [...] The ancient church which appears to have been dedicated to St. Andrew, but later was generally spoken of as St. James the Great, stood at the east end of the village. (fn. 72) It was destroyed by a storm in 1724, and in 1728 was rebuilt [...] This church was pulled down and a new church built on another site in 1856"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish. Pevsner (1968) (after GMCH) notes an "excellent and typical" font cover, but does not mention the font.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.17514, -0.172998

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 10′ 30.5″ N, 0° 10′ 22.79″ W

UTM: 30U 693298 5784286

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-04-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968