Cottenham / Coteham

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view of church exterior - south view
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of font and cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 13175COT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Church Close, Cottenham, Cambridgeshire CB4 8SD
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located on the B1049, 11 km N of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Chesterton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are five entries for Cottenham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4567/cottenham/] [accessed 28 June 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Paley's Guide (1844) has: "The font is plain octagonal". The Victoria County History (Cambridge…, vol. 9, 1989) notes: "Re-used masonry is all that remains from the 12thcentury church, many fragments being set in the outer walls, especially of the chancel. […] The rest of the church was rebuilt in the 15th century […] several times restored during the 19th century"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry. The font has graded mouldings on the lower base; otherwise plain. Octagonal pyramidal cover wirh crocketed arrises and finial; appears modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.296338,
0.133065
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 17′ 46.82″ N,
0° 7′ 59.03″ E
UTM: 31U 304506 5797870
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak?
Notes: octagonal pyramid with crocketed arrises; modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-06-28 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, The Ecclesiologist's guide to the churches within a circuit of seven miles round Cambridge, with introductory remarks, London; Cambridge: J. van Voorst; Metcalfe and Palmer, 1844