Teversham / Teuersham / Teuresham

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13190TEV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: 19 Church Road, Teversham, Cambridgeshire CB1 5AW
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located 5-6 km ESE of Cambridge, by the airport, now practically a suburb of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Flendish [Fleamdyke in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [re-cut] -- 15th century [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
There are four entries for Teversham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4958/teversham/] [accessed 19 July 2016], one of which mentions a church in it. Paley's Guide (1844) reports: "The font is a plain octagonal basin, on a stem." The Cambridgeshire County Council archive catalogue [http://calm.cambridgeshire.gov.uk] [accessed 16 October 2007] [ref. P/153/6/7] has an entry for 9 December 1887 that includes a "Citation for faculty to [...] "clean and restore font". Noted in the RCHM (1972) as a "much-restored and recut bowl" and suggests possibly a 13th-century date, on a 15th-century stem. The Victoria Cconty History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 10, 2002) notes: "The church mentioned at Teversham by 1086, one of the few then recorded in Cambridgeshire, was attached to the hide appropriated from the abbey of Ely by John son of Waleran, […] whose father had already granted tithes from Teversham to St. Stephen's abbey, Caen (dep. Calvados). […] The much-recut, perhaps 13th-century, octagonal font stands on a 15th-century stem."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.204493, 0.189108
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 12′ 16.18″ N, 0° 11′ 20.79″ E
UTM: 31U 307930 5787507

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2007-10-16 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