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view of church exterior - south porch

the former south porch of the church opens now to the Michaelhouse Café -- Source caption: "Eingang zum Michaelhouse Café in der St Michael's Church auf der Trinity Street in Cambridge"
Scene Description: the former south porch of the church opens now to the Michaelhouse Café -- Source caption: "Eingang zum Michaelhouse Café in der St Michael's Church auf der Trinity Street in Cambridge"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oxfordian Kissuth, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 February 2015 by Oxfordian Kissuth [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michaelhouse_Café_-_Cambridge.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest end

Source caption: "The Michaelhouse Centre / St Michael's Church in Cambridge" EXT S PORTAL digital photograph taken 9 February 2015 by Oxfordian Kissuth [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michaelhouse_Café_-_Cambridge.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2016] Source caption: "Eingang zum Michaelhouse Café in der St Michael's Church auf der Trinity Street in Cambridge" -- MY NOTE: the former church south portal opens now to the Michaelhouse Café CC-BY-SA-3.0
Scene Description: Source caption: "The Michaelhouse Centre / St Michael's Church in Cambridge" EXT S PORTAL digital photograph taken 9 February 2015 by Oxfordian Kissuth [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michaelhouse_Café_-_Cambridge.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2016] Source caption: "Eingang zum Michaelhouse Café in der St Michael's Church auf der Trinity Street in Cambridge" -- MY NOTE: the former church south portal opens now to the Michaelhouse Café CC-BY-SA-3.0
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The wub, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2013 by The wub [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michaelhouse,_Cambridge.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2016] Source caption: "The Michaelhouse Centre / St Michael's Church in Cambridge"
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INFORMATION

FontID: 13193CAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: [former] Parish Church of St. Michael [redundant]
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Trinity Street, Cambridge CB2 1TB, England
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located on Trinity St, near Trinity College
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Cambridge
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Church Notes: Noted in Cambridgeshire Churches: "St Michael's was originally founded in 1324 as a combined parish church and chapel for the college of Michaelhouse (which was later subsumed into Trinity College). The nave was for the parishioners, and the rather better appointed chancel was for the scholars. The collegiate stalls now sitting in the choir aren't originally from here if Pevsner is correct (they are 15th century, but he thinks they came here from Trinity College Chapel). The sedilia and piscina at the east end are particularly nice. The south chapel is named for Hervey de Stanton, Edward II's Chancellor of the Exchequer, founder of the church and of Michaelhouse, who died in 1327." [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/cammichael.htm] [accessed 16 October 2007]
Font Notes:
There are five entries for Cambridge [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4458/cambridge/] [accessed 7 April 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 3, 1959) notes: "The first reference to St. Michael's appears to be the record of a plea as to its advowson held in the year 1231. [...] The original church was rebuilt from its foundation by Hervey of Stanton and has been little altered since, though it was thoroughly repaired and restored after a fire in 1849." [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the font of the original 13th-century (?) church here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.207, 0.117
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 12′ 25.2″ N, 0° 7′ 1.2″ E
UTM: 31U 303015 5787980

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-04-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.