Hildersham / Hildicesham
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital image in the Hildersham Village web site [www.hildersham.com/about-us.html] [accessed 17 May 2016]
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view of font
Scene Description: artist's rendering
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ADS & the Society of Antiquaries of London, 2008
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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Image Source: 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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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - with gables or canopies - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hildersham Team, 2016
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4672184] [accessed 17 May 2016]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4672182] [accessed 17 May 2016]
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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - detail
Scene Description: artist's rendering
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ADS & the Society of Antiquaries of London, 2008
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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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the outer colonnettes of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hildersham Team, 2016
Image Source: digital image in the Hildersham Village web site [www.hildersham.com/about-us.html] [accessed 17 May 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10711HIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early Decorated
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, Hildersham, Cambridgeshire CB1 6BU
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A1307, 15 km SE of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Chilford
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the mid-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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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."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Adrian James, Asst. Librarian at the Society (SAL) for his help in documenting this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 312109 5777464
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.115744, 0.255744
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 6′ 56.68″ N, 0° 15′ 20.68″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
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-. 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, [unavailable]
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1929, [unavailable]
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844, p. 15
- 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, [item no. 155]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Cambridgeshire, Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1970, p. 407