Swaffham Prior No. 1 / Suafam / Suafham / Svafam

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view of church exterior - northwest view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 March 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4904981] [accessed 20 July 2016]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior - west view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/swaffhampriormary.htm] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: taken from beneath the tower

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004

Image Source: digital photograph by Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, in Cambridgeshire Churches [http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/swaffhampriormary.htm] [accessed 9 December 2007]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the old basin on a modern pedestal base replacement -- the original square basin was made octagonal at a later date by cutting wide chamfers at the corners; notice also the notch cut into the stone at the upper rim, probably related to an anchoring spot for an old cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2012

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evelyn Simak, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2012 by Evelyn Simak [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2968485] [accessed 20 July 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13251SWA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: High Street, Swaffham Prior, Cambridgeshire CB5 0LD
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off the B1102, 3 km SW of Burwell, 8 km W of Newmarket, 18-20 km NNE of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Staine
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mark Ynys-Mon, 2004, of Cambridgeshire Churches, for the photographs of this church
There are nine entries for Swaffham [Bulbeck and Prior] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/swaffham-bulbeck-and-prior/] [accessed 20 July 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The RCHM (1972) notes: "Font: square bowl with later splayed corners and chamfered under-edge, modern stem, 13th-century." The Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 10, 2002) notes: "Of those Cambridgeshire villages that once had two churches standing within one churchyard to serve separate ecclesiastical parishes, only Swaffham Prior still retains, though mostly rebuilt, both the ancient parish churches certainly established by the early 13th century. […] Their benefices have, however, been united since 1667. The church of St. Cyriac and St. Julitta (his mother) was commonly called St. Cyri(a)c's. Its unusual dedication was established by the 1210s […] and possibly before the Conquest. […] It stands higher and more centrally in the joint churchyard than St. Mary's, which may be of slightly later origin. Both churches however, since their fabric still retained 12th-century features c. 1800, […] may well have been founded by 1100. […] The two churches of ST. CYRIAC AND ST. JULITTA and ST. MARY, the second so named by the 1250s, […] stand less than 100 ft. (30 m.) apart in a raised churchyard south-east of the south-western part of the village street. St. Cyriac's is on the crest, St. Mary's in a dip to its north, nearer that street. Until 1800 both of their fabrics were mostly late medieval. […] The surviving square 13th-century font was reinstated in the tower in 1903 […] Separate registers for St. Cyriac's and St. Mary's are extant between 1559 and the late 1650s, […] after which combined ones, started during the Interregnum, were continued following the formal union of the benefices."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.25121, 0.29543
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 15′ 4.36″ N, 0° 17′ 43.55″ E
UTM: 31U 315388 5792425

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted) [originally square]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal [originally square]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and handle; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2007-12-09 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