Cartmel / Cherchebi

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view of church exterior in context - east view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Cartmel Priory, Cumbria, from the East, from Hampsfell".

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RuthAS, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2017 by RuthAS [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cartmel_Priory_from_East_27.03.17.jpg] [accessed 8 April 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: with the old font and cover in the centre aisle

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Dixon, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 January 2007 by David Dixon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5275230] [accessed 8 April 2019]

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view of church interior - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Dixon, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 January 2007 by David Dixon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5275492] [accessed 8 April 2019]

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view of font and cover in context - east side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Cartmel Priory, Nave and Magnificat West Window. The west end of the nave is illuminated by the spectacular Magnificat stained glass window. Another feature of the nave is the original font together with its wooden cover made in 1644."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Dixon, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 January 2007 by David Dixon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5275519] [accessed 8 April 2019]

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view of font and cover in context - northwest view

Scene Description: the modern font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2015

Image Source: digiatl photograph taken 3 April 2015 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4411487] [accessed 8 April 2019]

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view of font and cover in context - west view

Scene Description: the modern font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2007

Image Source: digiatl photograph taken 24 May 2007 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/447137] [accessed 8 April 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12156CAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Michael [former Augustinian Priory]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. Michael
Church Location: Priest Ln, Cartmel, Grange-over-Sands LA11 6PU, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Cumbria, North West
Directions to Site: Located off the M6 (exit at junction 36; take the A590; exit towards Cartmel Priory)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Carlisle
Historical Region: Hundred of Lonsdale -- Hundred of Amounderness [in Domesday] [formerly Lancashire]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the centre aisle
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Church Notes: priory church 1188; modified 14th, 15thC; restored 19thC
There is an entry for Cartmel [variant spelling] in the Domesday syrvey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SD3778/cartmel/] [accessed 8 April 2019] together with five other places; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. [NB: the name of Cartmel in Domesday is 'Cherchebi', which means 'place of the church', as in Kirkby, Kirby, etc.] The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Lancaster, vol. 8, 1914) notes: The priory at Cartmel "was founded in 1188 for Augustinian canons. The conventual buildings have all disappeared except the gatehouse [...] The quire, north quire aisle, central tower and transepts, the north wall of the nave and the south doorway of the nave next the transept are all of the original work of the end of the 12th century, and afford a good example of the transition [...] In 1723 the church was reported to be in good order and well furnished [...] There was a font with cover in the ancient place." Pevsner (1969) notes a "Font cover. Simple, dated 1640", but does not mention the font. There are actually two fonts in the former priory church; one of them is clearly modern, a square basin with decorated sides and angles, raised over a broad central shaft and four outer colonnettes at the angles, and a quadrangular lower base and plinth; it appears Victorian; the other font here appears to consist of a round basin on a moulded pedestal base, perhaps 17th- or 18th-century; it has the mid-17th century font cover noted above. [NB: an earlier baptismal font must have existed in this church, as Cartmel Priory, founded in the late 12th century, was also a parish church and had thus been "spared at the Dissolution" (Pevsner, ibid.) -- we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.201111, -2.952222
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 12′ 4″ N, 2° 57′ 8″ W
UTM: 30U 503117 6005899

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1640
Material: wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-04-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.