Elsworth / Elesuuorde / Elesworde

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design element - motifs - moulding

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view of basin - interior

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view of church exterior - west view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10947ELS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity

Church Location: Church Lane, Elsworth, Cambridgeshire CB3 8HT

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A428, about 15 km WNW of Cambridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Papworth

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S aisle, by the entrance

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshirecdbooks.com, for his photographs of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for this Elsworth [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3163/elsworth/] [accessed 4 July 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The RCHM (1968) reports a late-medieval limestone font here. The Victoria County History (Cambridge, vol. 9, 1989) notes: "Elsworth had a church by a.d. 1000 whose advowson, then given to Ramsey abbey, (fn. 1) remained with it throughout the Middle Ages […] A fragment of carving in the vestry may derive from a 12th-century building. The church was rebuilt in the 14th century"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry. Baptismal font dating probably from the 14th-century rebuilding of this church; it consists of a plain octagonal basin with graded chamfer, raised on a plain octagonal pedestal and moulded lower base, and a two-step plinth; the inner basin is lead-lined, with a central drain; plain and flat wooden font cover, appears modern, but damage to one of the upper sides of the basin is indicates the existence of staples from an old cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.253894, -0.070575

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 15′ 14.02″ N, 0° 4′ 14.07″ W

UTM: 30U 699945 5793321

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-07-04 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Cambridge, Woking; London: Printed in England for Her Majesty's Stationary Office by Unwin Brothers Unlimited, 1968