Great Eversden / Aueresdone / Auresdone / Euresdone

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view of church exterior - northeast end
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church exterior in context - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mare Way to Great Eversden Church. A long zoom shot from the top of the chalk ridge to the south of the village, nearly three-quarters of a mile from St Mary's."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 November 2013 by John Sutton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3729936] [accessed 28 April 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
INFORMATION
FontID: 13182EVE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Street, Great Eversden, Cambridgeshire CB3 7HN
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A603, just W of Little Eversden, 11 km SW of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Longstowe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: , Medieval
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are four entries for [Great and Little] Eversden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/great-and-little-eversden/] [accessed 28 April 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Paley's Guide (1844) notes: "The font is rude octagonal, with a remarkably shallow basin: it has the appearance of great antiquity, but the stem and bowl are covered with plaister [sic]". The RCHM (1968) does not mention a font in this church. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 5, 1973) notes: "There was evidently a church, perhaps serving both Great and Little Eversden, by 1092, for by then Picot the sheriff had granted twothirds of the tithes of Eversden to his foundation of Barnwell Priory [...] Nothing of the 12th-century church has remained visible. The earliest feature is a late-14thcentury window reset in the tower, apparently at the rebuilding for which indulgences were granted in 1466 following a fire when the church and its belltower were struck by lightning"; no font at Great Eversden St Mary's is mentioned in the VCH entry.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.161251,
-0.003967
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 9′ 40.51″ N,
0° 0′ 14.28″ W
UTM: 30U 704916 5783206
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: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-04-28 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