Cambridge No. 8 / Grentebrige

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. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 3, 1959) notes: "All Saints [in the Jewry or by the Hospital], which formerly stood in St. John's Street, opposite to St. John's hospital, is first mentioned, with the lands and tithe pertaining to it, as having been bestowed upon the monks of St. Albans in the days of Abbot Paul (1077–93). [...] The old church was destroyed in 1865, when St. John's Street was widened [...] The new church stands in Jesus Lane, opposite the entrance to Jesus College; it was designed by G. F. Bodley and decorated by William Morris, and contains the font from the old church." Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with plain foot, and body decorated with pointed quatrefoils and shields, from the destroyed church of All Saints in Jewry." Although somewhat in a battered state, the basin and stem of this font sides are brightly painted; the panels of the basin sides are pointed quatrefoil, with a variety od symbols inscribed (Tudor rose?, charged shields, etc.); the underbowl chamfer has graded mouldings; the stem is octagonal and decorated with varied tracery; the lower base and plinth are octagonal and appear to be modern. [NB: the RCHM (Cambridge, 1959) notes that "the old church, of All Saints in the Jewry" is first documented towards the end of the 12th century; the new church of All Saints is 19th-century].