Caldecote nr. Cambridge

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph in the Caldecote Parish web site [www.caldecotechurch.org.uk/celebrating-the-church-family/] [accessed 27 April 2016]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Michael & All Angels: the parish church of Caldecote. The church is mainly 15th century and stands along Main Street."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 April 2009 by Robert Edwards [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1243937] [accessed 27 April 2016]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2008 by Keith Edkins [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/883573] [accessed 27 April 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font partially visible in the foreground [west end]

Image Source: digital photograph in the Caldecote Parish web site [www.caldecotechurch.org.uk/celebrating-the-church-family/] [accessed 27 April 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13178CAL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels

Church Location: 10 Main Street, Caldecote, Cambridgeshire CB3 7NU

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B1046, SE of Cambourne, 10 km WSW of Cambridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Longstowe

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for this Caldecote in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3456/caldecote/] [accessed 27 April 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Baptismal font noted in Paley's Guide (1844): "The font is plain octagonal, on a stem." The RCHM (Cambridgeshire, 1968) notes: "octagonal, of clunch, with straight-sided bowl having moulded under edge and moulded base; late medieval." The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 5, 1973) notes: "There was a chapel at Caldecote in the 12th century, but if anything remains of that building it cannot be more than parts of the north and east walls of the nave. Late in the 14th century the nave, south porch, tower, and possibly the chancel were built [...] Caldecote was visited by William Dowsing in 1644 and 'superstitious pictures', a crucifix, and a picture of Christ were destroyed. [...] The liturgical books were scattered, the holy table removed from the church to a private house for domestic use, the font overturned, and the poor box broken."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.188048, -0.030855

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 11′ 16.97″ N, 0° 1′ 51.08″ W

UTM: 30U 702956 5786110

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat; appears modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-04-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Cambridge, Woking; London: Printed in England for Her Majesty's Stationary Office by Unwin Brothers Unlimited, 1968

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