Yelling / Gellinge / Ghellinge / Gillinge / Gillinges / Gylling / Illyng
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Image Source: Digital photograph taken by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: Digital photograph taken by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1 July 2005)
INFORMATION
FontID: 10959YEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Cross
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross
Church Location: 131 High Street, Yelling, Cambridgeshire PE19 6SD
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B1040, about 8 km E of St. Neots
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: formerly in Huntingdonshire -- Hundred of Toseland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of this font.
Font Notes:
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The Victoria County History (Huntingdon, vol. 2, 1932) notes: "The church is mentioned in the Domesday Survey (1086), but the oldest part extant is the north arcade of the nave, c. 1180–90 [...] The church was restored in 1730 [...] The 13th-century font has a square bowl with splayed angles on an octagonal stem with moulded base." Baptismal font consisting of plain square basin with angles chamfered to a few inches of the lower rim; it sits flat, without a chamfer, on the plain octagonal pedestal base; the lower base is also octagonal, the upper half splaying out, the lower one with plain vertical sides; wooden flat cover decorated with metal reinforcements, probably modern
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 693860 5792645
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-04-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.