Toft nr. Cambridge / Tofth
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view of font and cover
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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view of church exterior - southeast view
![EXT SE digital photograph taken 8 September 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3149161] [accessed 16 May 2016]
INT E digital photograph taken 8 September 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3149162] [accessed 16 May 2016]
INT W digital photograph taken 8 September 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3149170] [accessed 16 May 2016]
FONT digital photograph taken 8 September 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3149180] [accessed 16 May 2016]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160522046_compressed.png)
Scene Description: EXT SE digital photograph taken 8 September 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3149161] [accessed 16 May 2016]
INT E digital photograph taken 8 September 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3149162] [accessed 16 May 2016]
INT W digital photograph taken 8 September 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3149170] [accessed 16 May 2016]
FONT digital photograph taken 8 September 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3149180] [accessed 16 May 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the top of the font is visible at the far end, left [south] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160522048_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the top of the font is visible at the far end, left [south] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3149170] [accessed 16 May 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3149162] [accessed 16 May 2016]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3149180] [accessed 16 May 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13179TOF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1470?
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Church Road, Toft, Cambridgeshire CB3 7RH
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B1046, 10 km WSW of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Longstowe
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the pre-1086 church here)
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for this Toft [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3655/toft/] [accessed 16 May 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is noted in Paley's Guide (1844): "The font is plain octagonal, of Perpendicular date." [NB: Paley suggests a date ca. 1470 for most of the church, but the RCHM (1968) reports a south arcade, chancel arch of ca. 1400, and a late-14th century tower]. Noted in Kelly's county Directory for 1929 much in the same terms as Paley. The RCHM (ibid.) has: "Font: octagonal bowl with moulded underedge, plain stem and chamfered base; 15th century." The Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 5, 1973) notes: "Count Alan may have had a church at Toft, for before 1086 he gave part of his tithes there to the abbey of St. Sergius and St. Bacchus at Angers (Maine et Loire). [...] The church itself was recorded in 1217 [...] bore that dedication [i.e., St. Andrew] as early as 1267 [...] 15thcentury font".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 704454 5785580
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.182741, -0.009294
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 10′ 57.87″ N, 0° 0′ 33.46″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain, with metal decoration and ring handle
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1929, cited in [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CAM/Toft/] [accessed 13 October 2007]
- 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, p. 20