Hildersham / Hildicesham

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - with gables or canopies - 8

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the outer colonnettes of the base

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - detail

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Image Source: detail of a 1802 drawing of this font by Thomas Fisher is entered in the Catalogue of Drawings & Museum Objects of the Society of Antiquaries of London [http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/specColl/SoA_images/detail.cfm?object=1254] [accessed 13 January 2008]

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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: the full drawing by Fisher

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font

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Image Source: detail of a 1802 drawing of this font by Thomas Fisher is entered in the Catalogue of Drawings & Museum Objects of the Society of Antiquaries of London [http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/specColl/SoA_images/detail.cfm?object=1254] [accessed 13 January 2008]

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10711HIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: High Street, Hildersham, Cambridgeshire CB1 6BU
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off the A1307, 15 km SE of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Chilford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Early Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Adrian James, Asst. Librarian at the Society (SAL) for his help in documenting this font
There is an entry for Hildersham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL5448/hildersham/] [accessed 17 May 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A 1802 drawing of this font by Thomas Fisher is entered in the Catalogue of Drawings & Museum Objects of the Society of Antiquaries of London [http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/specColl/SoA_images/detail.cfm?object=1254] [accessed 13 January 2008]. Paley (1844) notes this as a font of the Decorated period raised on a five-support base. Noted in Kelly's Directory of this county for 1929 as "an early octagonal font". Described in Parker (1848): "Font octagonal supported by four pillars E.E." The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 6, 1978) notes: "Hildersham church had probably been established by c. 1150 [...] The oldest portions [of the present church], the vaulted sacristy and the west tower, are of the early 13th century. [...] The octagonal 13th-century font rests on five columns and has trefoiled canopies on each face." The Parish web site [www.members.aol.com/jimmynors/hildersham/] has a "Church Guide based on notes by Canon P.R. Phillips", Rector 1900-1948: "At the west end of the nave stands the font. The period asigned to the font is King John's reign. It is mentioned in the Vetus Liber Arc. Eliensis c.1278 'Pons cum secura', 'a font with a lock'. The font is of early 13th century date, octagonal in shape and supported on a central shaft and four other shafts. On each side is a canopy of delicate design. The circular basin is 23 inches in diameter and 13 inches deep; it is lined with lead, and has a perforation at the bottom to drain away the water [...] One of the staples still remains, and there are traces of the other to be seen. A new oak cover was provided in 1974 out of a bequest from the late D. G. Parrott of Linton, a worshipper and good friend of this church." Noted in Pevsner (1970): "Font. Octagonal, on polygonal supports. Bowl decorated with shafts carrying trefoil arches under gables; C13."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.115744, 0.255744
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 6′ 56.68″ N, 0° 15′ 20.68″ E
UTM: 31U 312109 5777464

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Diameter (includes rim): 57.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 32.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements in inches in the Parish web site [www.members.aol.com/jimmynors/hildersham/

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1974
Material: wood, oak
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-05-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Church of England. Archdeaconry of Ely, Vetus liber archidiaconi eliensis, Cambridge: Printed for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 1917
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1929
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970