Prickwillow

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding - patterned

Image Source: digital photograph by James Yardley [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/385216] [accessed 22 November 2007]

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angel - cherub - 4

Image Source: digital photograph by James Yardley [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/385216] [accessed 22 November 2007]

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design element - motifs - beaded-tape

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph by James Yardley [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/385216] [accessed 22 November 2007]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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symbol - shell

Image Source: digital photograph by James Yardley [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/385216] [accessed 22 November 2007]

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2005, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/prickwillow.htm] [accessed 23 November 2007]

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view of font

Scene Description: Tiger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/385216] [accesed 30 November 2020] writes: "Font in St Peter's church. The elaborately carved font of Italian marble, perhaps from Carrara, was given to Ely Cathedral by Dean Spencer in 1693 and loaned to Prickwillow in 1865. Update: after St Peter's was declared redundant in 2011 the font has been returned to the cathedral."

Image Source: digital photograph by James Yardley [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/385216] [accessed 22 November 2007]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13230PRI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter [originally from Ely Cathedral] [church deconsacred for domestic dwelling; for sale in 2020]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: [NB: address and coordinates are for the church at Prickwillow] B1382, Prickwillow, Ely, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located at the B1382-B1104 crossroads, 8 km E of Ely

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1693?

Century and Period: 17th century(late?),

Workshop/Group/Artisan: designed by Christopher Wren?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to James Yardley for the photograph of this font -- We are also grateful to Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches, for the photograph of the church.

Church Notes: Church built ca. 1866-1868(?), but font originally from Ely Cathedral

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Kelly's Directory (1929): "the font of Italian marble, also brought from Ely cathedral, and said to have been designed by Sir Christopher Wren, is dated 1693". Font and cover are noted in the Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 4, 2002) : "a handsome font of Italian marble, dated 1693, [...] formerly in the cathedral. The font has an elaborately carved wooden cover, which is suspended from the roof by the figure of an angel." A photograph of this font [but not of the cover] by James Yardley captioned "Presented to Ely Cathedral in 1693 and later moved to Prickwillow" can be found at http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/385216 [accessed 22 November 2007]. The Cambridgeshire County Council archives catalogue (ref. 23/Z804) lists and entry for: "Lantern slide, Ely (Prickwillow): Engraving of font in Prickwillow Church (came from Ely Cathedral according to inscription)" by the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.4171, 0.3464

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 25′ 1.56″ N, 0° 20′ 47.04″ E

UTM: 31U 319543 5810744

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Font Shape: chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: yes

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2007-11-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1929