Hauxton / Hauochestone / Hauochestun / Havochestun
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view of font and cover in context - west side
Scene Description: the font and cover at the west end of the nave, looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/334078] [accessed 20 June 2016]
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design element - motifs - scotia
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/334078] [accessed 20 June 2016]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hauxton: St Edmund - from the north-east. This narrow church is Norman in origin, with later windows and tower."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Sutton, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 November 2014 by John Sutton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4251997] [accessed 20 June 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Sutton, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 November 2015 by John Sutton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4750339] [accessed 20 June 2016]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kim Fyson, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 December 2012 by Kim Fyson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4150593] [accessed 20 June 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![with the old font at the far [west] end](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160620006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with the old font at the far [west] end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/334082] [accessed 20 June 2016]
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view of church interior - chancel arch - painting
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Thomas Becket. An early wall painting of the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury in St Edmund's Church. The saint is shown with his right hand uplifted in blessing, and was probably painted around 1250."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tiger, 2009
Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken March 1994 by Tiger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1224241] [accessed 20 June 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![with the mural painting of St Thomas Becket on the right [south] wall of the chancel arch](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160620004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with the mural painting of St Thomas Becket on the right [south] wall of the chancel arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/334080] [accessed 20 June 2016]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 September 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/334078] [accessed 20 June 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 10726HAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Edmund
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the W tower
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]
Church Address: Church Road, Hauxton, Cambridgeshire CB2 5HS
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) th A10, 8 km SSW of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Thriplow
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the pre-Conquest church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Hauxton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4352/hauxton/] [accessed 20 June 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Paley's Guide (1844) notes: "The font is octagonal, on five shafts", and much in the same terms in Kelly's Directory of the county (1929). Noted in The Ecclesiologist (no. CXLVII, December 1861: 383) as a font of the "First Pointed" [i.e., Early English] period: "It consists simply of the frustrum of an octagonal pyramid with the base upwards, and hollowed out for the basin; it has no moulding or carving, and is now on a modern base." The Victoria County History (Cambridge…, vol. 8, 1982) notes: "Both at Hauxton and at Newton churches were established well before 1150. […] Hauxton church, dedicated to St. Edmund, […] may well be of pre-Conquest foundation. […] Probably c. 1100 the monks of Ely had built a church with a round-ended apse, and a short nave reaching not far west of the present north and south doors. […] Perhaps c. 1200 the chancel received a straight east end […] There is a plain, octagonal, 13th-century font." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2016): "an octagonal tapered bowl standing on an impost-like block with a deep groove in the chamfer and a roll edge to the upper face. This in turn stands on five shafts, the outer ones simple cylinders with plain neckings at the top only, and the central one octagonal with an integrated cushion capital." There is a round, flat and plain wooden cover on the font; modern; the upper sides of th basin, however, bear the scars of old cover anchorings, with considerable damage to the upper rim.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 301417 5781601
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.149151, 0.097373
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 8′ 56.95″ N, 0° 5′ 50.54″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 7 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 52 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 66 cm*
Basin Total Height: 43 cm*
Height of Base: 56 cm [calculated to include columns and impost block]
Height of Central Column: 38.5 cm [calculated]
Height of Side Columns: 38.5 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 99 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2016)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1929, [www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CAM/Hauxton/] [accessed 12 October 2007]
- Paley, Frederick Apthorp, The Ecclesiologist's guide to the churches within a circuit of seven miles round Cambridge, with introductory remarks, London; Cambridge: J. van Voorst; Metcalfe and Palmer, 1844, p. 31