Bottisham No. 1 / Bodichessham

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10694BOT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1, fragment
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Address: High Street, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire CB5 9BB
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A1303, 11 km E of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Staine
Additional Comments: broken font: fragments left
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Bottisham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL5460/bottisham/] [accessed 19 July 2018], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Pevsner (1970) writes: "Font. Three fragments of a square bowl, one with chevron pattern, one with an engaged shaft. C12." The Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 10, 2002) notes: "In the early 12th century Bottisham church had been attached to the Giffards' manor. […] From a preceding 12th-century church there survive fragments of a tympanum carved with a cross, and of a square font with chevron carving." Rogers (2002) writes: "the remains of a typical Norman font, of the twelfth century [...] in the Allington Chapel at the east end of the north aisle: [...] three fragments of a square bowl , circular inside with a central drain hole - one side with a chevron pattern, one corner with an engaged shaft" [NB: this description appears to have been taken almost verbatim from the RCHM (1972) entry for this church; the RCHM dates these fragments to the 12th century.]

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 312860 5789061
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.220146, 0.2603
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 13′ 12.53″ N, 0° 15′ 37.08″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three fragments
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square

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 historical monuments in the County of Cambridge, Woking; London: Printed in England for Her Majesty's Stationary Office by Unwin Brothers Unlimited, 1968, vol. 2: 5
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970, p. 304
  • Rogers, Hugh H., A History of Holy Trinity Church, Bottisham, 2002, [http://www.mono-leathergoods.biz/homepage3/History%20Bottisham%20Church/History%20Bottisham%20Church.pdf] [accessed 14 October 2007]