Landwade

No entry for Landwade found in the Domesday survey. Pevsner (1970) writes of a stoup in this church: "Nice embattled arched niche near the N doorway." The Victoria County History (Cambridge…, vol. 10, 2002) notes: "Landwade was probably not originally formally a separate parish, but it came to be accepted as one from the mid 15th century, perhaps through having its own church; it never had an incumbent of its own, but only curates appointed by various authorities. In 1279 a chapel at Landwade, linked to the rectory of St. Andrew's at Burwell, was in the possession of the prior of Fordham […] The church has been dedicated to St. Nicholas since at least c. 1445. The existing church, which is 250 m. north of the modern Landwade Hall but only 5 m. west of the remains of the medieval manorial moat, was apparently built as a private chapel by Walter Cotton c. 1445, and has remained virtually unaltered." The stoup is also noted in www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/landwade.htm the web site of Cambrdgeshire Churches. The baptismal font in this church is a late one, a miniscule basin on a circular pedestal base [not included in BSI on account of its late date; we have no information on the original font of this church. There is no mention of either font or stoup in Parker's 1855 entry for this church].