Ely No. 2

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2015 by Bill Boaden [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4451533] [accessed 11 April 2016]

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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

Scene Description: Source caption: "Tympanum and carvings, South Prior door, Ely Cathedral" -- this portal was the main entrance of the 12thC cathedral

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 June 2012 by J.Hannan-Briggs [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2988298] [accessed 11 April 2016]

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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ely Cathedral - the Prior's door (detail). This former 12th century entrance into the cathedral is decorated with magnificent Norman stone carvings. The doorway connected the cathedral to the medieval cloister. The central carving is believed to date from 1135. Around the doorway some of the carvings depict the signs of the Zodiac, a reminder that this was the gate of heaven."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 November 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2168287] [accessed 11 April 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ely Cathedral - view east towards the crossing. This view was taken east along the nave looking towards the high altar and presbytery."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 November 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2168572] [accessed 11 April 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 November 2010 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2168312] [accessed 11 April 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: the 1853 font by Scott

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4480204] [accessed 11 April 2016]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the 1853 font by Scott

Image Source: digital photograph in the Ely Cathedral web site [www.elycathedral.org/visit/a-descriptive-tour-of-ely-cathedral] [accessed 11 April 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10697ELY

Church/Chapel: Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity

Church Location: Chapter House, The College, Ely, Cambridgeshire CB7 4DL, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located at the A10-A142 crossroads, NNE of Cambridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Ely 2

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Ely in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL5480/ely/] [accessed 11 April 2016], but neither mentions cleric or church in it, though the Abbey of St. Etheldreda was both lord and tenant in 1066 and 1086. Noted and illustrated in Pevsner (1970): "By Scott, 1853, very E[arly] E[nglish], with stiff-leaf capitals." The Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 4, 2002) notes: "A religious house was founded on the present site by Etheldreda, a daughter of Anna King of East Anglia, in 673. The monastery was laid waste by the Danes in 870, refounded by Ethelwold, Bishop of Winchester, as a Benedictine abbey in 970 and dedicated to St. Peter and the Blessed Virgin by Dunstan in 974. [...] The building of the present church and monastic buildings was begun under Simeon the first Norman abbot. Bishop Northwold rededicated the church on the completion of a new presbytery about 1250 in honour of the Virgin, St. Peter, and St. Etheldreda. [...] No fragment of the pre-Conquest church has been found [...] Simeon was already 80 when in 1081 he became abbot and began the rebuilding. He continued the work until his death in 1093. [...] the church was ready for her ceremonial Translation on 17 October 1106. [...] The font was given by Canon Selwyn in 1866, and was placed in its present position in 1895; it replaces one which had been bought with a bequest of Dean Spencer in 1693, and is now in Prickwillow church." [cf. Index entry for Prickwillow]. Described and ilustrated in Broughton (2008). The font is in the style of the Romanesque 'table-top' fonts, a square basin raised on a broad central shaft and four angle colonnettes; the upper rim of the basin is chamfered; there are four deeply carved quatrefoils containing the symbols of the four Evangelists on the sides; the lower end of the basin is decorated with a narrow band of zigzag; the columns of the base are profusely decorated with a Victorian version of the 13th-century stiff-leave motif, here resembling Corinthian capitals; the bases of these columns are moulded, each with a leaf at the angle of the font; it is raised on a three-step plinth. [NB: the present church dates from the late-11th century, but we have no information of the medieval font(s) of the cathedral].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.398611, 0.264167

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 23′ 55″ N, 0° 15′ 51″ E

UTM: 31U 313874 5808896

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2007-11-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Broughton, Lynne, Interpreting Ely Cathedral, [Ely?]: Ely Cathedral Publications, 2008

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970