Steeple Morden / Mordune

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4659651] [accessed 8 June 2016]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4659651] [accessed 8 June 2016]

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view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2005 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Parish Church of SS. Peter and Paul. Nave arcades late C13, with clerestory of quatrefoil lights blocked by late C14 aisle roofs. Late C14 south porch. The spire collapsed c.1625 ruining the chancel which was rebuilt c.1866-69."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2007 by Keith Edkins [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/510203] [accessed 8 June 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4659620] [accessed 8 June 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2015 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4659636] [accessed 8 June 2016]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken August 2005 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 February 2013 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3327335] [accessed 8 June 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11013STE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Church Street, Steeple Morden, Cambridgeshire SG8 0NJ

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A505, WNW of Royston, 24 km SW of Cambridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Arringford

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end, S side, opposite the S door

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [re-tooled?], Decorated? / Perpendicular? [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of this font, and to Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches, for his photographs of the church itself.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for [Steeple] Morden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL2842/steeple-morden/] [accessed 8 June 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL2857342467] (1967) notes: "Font, late C13 or early C14." The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 8, 1982) notes: "In 1185 Bishop Richard of Ilchester agreed to grant the church to the Knights Hospitaller in exchange for their claim to St. Cross hospital, Winchester [...] but the deal fell through, and when he died in 1188 the advowson was in his hands. [...] rebuilding in the early 13th century, which by 1242 had given the village the name Steeple Morden [...] the font 15th-century". The baptismal font in the parish church of Steeple Morden appears to have been drastically re-tooled, which makes it difficult to assign a date to; it has the general shape of the fonts of the Perpendicular period, but it is also possible that it is a modern font re-tooled as well; it consistis of an octagonal basin of plain vertical sides and a graded underbowl chamfer, raised on an octagonal pedestal base plain except for a set of similar graded mouldings on the lower base; no plinth, but there is a 'priest's stone'; there has been some repair work done to the upper side of the basin; the inner well of the basin is round and lead-lined, the central drian hole now plugged; the wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid that appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.065849, -0.124502

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 3′ 57.05″ N, 0° 7′ 28.21″ W

UTM: 30U 697095 5772264

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining [plugged centre hole]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-06-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.