Grantchester / Grantesete / Grauntaceaster / Grauntsethe
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004 in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/grantchester.htm] [accessed 13 October 2007]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004 in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/grantchester.htm] [accessed 13 October 2007]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004 in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/grantchester.htm] [accessed 13 October 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13183GRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary and St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin & St. Andrew [originally St. Andrew]
Church Address: High Street, Grantchester, Cambridgeshire CB3 9NF
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A1301, 3 km SW of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Wetherley
Additional Comments: disused font? [already disused ca. 1844; back in use 20thC? -- cf. FontNotes] / restored font [cf. RCHM (1968)] -- disappeared font? (the one from the 11th-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There are six entries for Grantchester [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4355/grantchester/] [accessed 12 May 2013], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is noted in Paley's Guide (1844): "The font is a plain circular basin on a stem, apparently Early-English: it is now disused". The RCHM (1968) notes a limestone basin of the 13th century on a modern base in this curch. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 5, 1973) notes: "The church of Grantchester belonged originally to the manor held of the honor of Boulogne. By 1200 its advowson was held with the Grantchester portion of that manor by the Fercles family. [...] Rectors of Grantchester are recorded from c. 1200 [...] The nave is still in part of the late 11th or early 12th century"; there is no font mentioned in the VCH entry. the entry in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL4336655464] (1962) notes: "Font: C13. Tapering limestone bowl on a modern base." A recent [2004] illustration of the font -which is apparently back in use- appears in Cambridgeshire Churches [www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/grantchester.htm] [accessed 13 October 2007]. The basin is round and plain, with tapering sides; the base is round, with roll mouldings on the stem. Flat round cover with metal decoration and ring handle.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ben Colburn and Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches, for the photographs of church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 301395 5784911
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.178865, 0.095114
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 10′ 43.91″ N, 0° 5′ 42.41″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. 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, vol. 1: 115
- 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. 29