Shudy Camps

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view of font and cover

the modern font in use
Scene Description: the modern font in use
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Knott, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2011 by Simon Knott [www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/6076548798/] [accessed 17 May 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view

Source caption: "St. Mary: the parish church of Shudy Camps. Apart from the 13th century chancel, the rest of the church is of the perpendicular period."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Mary: the parish church of Shudy Camps. Apart from the 13th century chancel, the rest of the church is of the perpendicular period."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Edwards, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2014 by Robert Edwards [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3936753] [accessed 17 May 2016]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 13238SHU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century [base only?] [composite font], Late Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: [inside the church in 1848]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Road, Shudy Camps, Cambridgeshire CB21 4RB
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A1307, WSW of Haverhill, 20 km SE of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Chilford
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the partly-Perpendicular one reported in Parker in 1848) -- disappeared font? (the one of the 11th-12thC church)
Font Notes:
There are two entries for [Castle and Shudy] Camps in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/castle-and-shudy-camps/] [accessed 17 May 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is reported in Parker (1848): "the base of the font is octagonal plain P and is half built into the wall the upper part is modern". Kelly's County Directory of 1929 notes: "The church of St. Mary, an edifice of rubble in the Perpendicular style, is said to have been originally built about the year 1060", and that records of baptisms in this church date back to 1558. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 6, 1978) notes: "Shudy Camps had a church by c. 1200 [...] Fragments of 12th-century carvings have been re-used in the walls, and the south doorway of the chancel is probably 13th-century." The Shudy Camps web site [www.rd29.net/cc/shudycamps/stmarys.html] [accessed 17 May 2016] quotes from a 1742 diary by William Cole: "The stone font stands near the belfry." A polygonal font of moulded sides is now in use in this church; it appears modern. [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the medieval baptismal font(s) of this church].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 319241 5772582
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.07427, 0.36237
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 4′ 27.37″ N, 0° 21′ 44.53″ E

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1929, cited in [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CAM/ShudyCamps/index.html] [accessed 25 November 2007]
  • Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850, [item no. 162]