Girton nr. Cambridge / Gretone

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 November 2013 by Kim Fyson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3972466] [accessed 1 July 2016]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: drawing in Grirton Village Website [http://www.girton-cambs.org.uk/churches/StAndrews/history.html] [accessed 26 October 2007]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13121GIR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew

Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew

Church Location: 23 Cambridge Road, Girton, Cambridgeshire CB3 0PN

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located on the A14, NW of Cambridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Northstowe

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries ofr this Girton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4262/girton/] [accessed 28 June 2016], none of which mention cleric or church in it. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL4238062328] (1962) notes: "Font, C13 retooled." The Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 9, 1989) notes: "The church, which has always remained a rectory, although at first some incumbents were styled vicars, […] belonged from the 12th century to Ramsey abbey […] The lower west wall of the tower contains herringbone masonry, probably surviving from a 12th-century building. […] The plain octagonal font received in the early 17th century a cover with curving arches." Dated as 14th-century and illustrated in the Grirton Village Website [http://www.girton-cambs.org.uk/churches/StAndrews/history.html] [accessed 26 October 2007]: "14th century octagonal stone font [...] The font may have been installed in its present position, the centre of the earlier church, at about the time of the first recorded baptism which was in 1298"

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.2405, 0.082637

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 14′ 25.8″ N, 0° 4′ 57.49″ E

UTM: 31U 300818 5791798

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood,

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2007-10-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.