Sutton nr. Ely / Sudtone / Sutton-in-the-Isle
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 September 2021)
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view of font
Scene Description: the pedestal base is a modern replacement
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 12 June 2021 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 12 June 2021 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2009
Image Source: photograph taken 16 June 1998 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1151175] [accessed 25 April 2016]1160425001)
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/sutton.htm] [accessed 7 December 2007]
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design element - motifs - floral - square flower
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 12 June 2021 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 September 2021)
view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 12 June 2021 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 12 June 2021 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 12 June 2021 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 5 September 2021)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/sutton.htm] [accessed 7 December 2007]
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view of church interior - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/sutton.htm] [accessed 7 December 2007]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13250SUT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [basin only] [re-cut?] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: High Street, Sutton, Cambridgeshire CB6 2RB
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the B1381-A142 cross-roads, just S of Mepal, 9 km W of Ely
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Ely 2 [in Domesday] -- Hundred of South Witchford
Additional Comments: altered font (re-cut? -- base replaced) -- disappeared font? (the one from the pre-1254 church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Sutton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4478/sutton/] [accessed 25 April 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 4: 2002) notes: "The church was early appropriated to the hosteller of Ely monastery-an arrangement which Bishops Northwold (1254) [...] and Balsham (1276) [...] confirmed. [...] The fabric [of the present building] dates from the second half of the 14th century, and exhibits the transition from Decorated to Perpendicular. [...] The plain octagonal font is probably of late 14th century date; beneath the bowl there are conventional flowers carved in relief." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with odd-looking veritcal sides in combination with a deeply-carved band of floral motif around the underbowl, perhaps an indication that the font may have been re-cut; the octagonal pedestal base and the plinth are modern, as is the lead lining of the basin well.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches, and to Colin Smith for their photographs of church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 304502 5808247
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.389512, 0.126974
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 23′ 22.24″ N, 0° 7′ 37.1″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lining [modern]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal pyramid with crenellation around the bottom, openwork on the upper half; metal cross finial; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.