Bottisham No. 2 / Bodichessham

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design element - motifs - broach stop - 4

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover - northwest side

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the south aisle

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13189BOT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity

Church Location: High Street, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire CB5 9BB

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A1303, 11 km E of Cambridge

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Staine

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, S aisle, W end

Century and Period: 13th century, Decorated

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Paley's Guide (1844): "The font is octagonal, a plain, but excellent Decorated design." The Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 10, 2002) reports: "The existing plain octagonal font is probably 13th-century." Rogers (2002) writes: "The present font, of the 13th century, is simple for a font of the Decorated style. It was heavily, not sympathetically, restored in 1840. Hailstone (1873) [NB: part of the description appears to be taken from the entry in the RCHM (1972). ['The history and antiques of the Parish of Bottisham and the Priory of Anglesey', C.A.S.] described the font as a hexagonal basin, which descends by means of broach stops, with a protruding stone of the west side. All trace of the original cover has been lost. According to the RCHM the stone of the base is a coffin lid fragment. [...] In the 17th century, and probably long before that, the present Bottisham font stood under the last arch of the south side of the nave (Cole [i.e., William Cole (1714-1782). M.S.S. British Museum). By the 19th century it stood midway between the arch and the south wall of the aisle".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.220146, 0.2603

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 13′ 12.53″ N, 0° 15′ 37.08″ E

UTM: 31U 312860 5789061

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: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2007-10-14 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

Rogers, Hugh H., A History of Holy Trinity Church, Bottisham, 2002