Wicken nr. Ely / Wicha
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Scene Description: one of the two modern fonts in this church
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5028675] [accessed 26 July 2016]
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Scene Description: one of the two modern fonts in this church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5028676] [accessed 26 July 2016]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5028664] [accessed 26 July 2016]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
![EXT SE digital photograph taken 6 April 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5028662] [accessed 26 July 2016]
EXT NW digital photograph taken 6 April 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5028664] [accessed 26 July 2016]
INT E digital photograph taken 6 April 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5028666] [accessed 26 July 2016]
INT W digital photograph taken 6 April 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5028672] [accessed 26 July 2016]
FONT DARK digital photograph taken 6 April 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5028676] [accessed 26 July 2016]
LIGHT FONT digital photograph taken 6 April 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5028675] [accessed 26 July 2016]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160726007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: EXT SE digital photograph taken 6 April 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5028662] [accessed 26 July 2016]
EXT NW digital photograph taken 6 April 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5028664] [accessed 26 July 2016]
INT E digital photograph taken 6 April 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5028666] [accessed 26 July 2016]
INT W digital photograph taken 6 April 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5028672] [accessed 26 July 2016]
FONT DARK digital photograph taken 6 April 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5028676] [accessed 26 July 2016]
LIGHT FONT digital photograph taken 6 April 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5028675] [accessed 26 July 2016]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5028662] [accessed 26 July 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5028672] [accessed 26 July 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5028666] [accessed 26 July 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13262WIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Address: 72 Church Road, Wicken, Cambridgeshire CB7 5XT
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A1123, 8 km S of Ely
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Staploe
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original the 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Wicken [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL5770/wicken/] [accessed 26 July 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 10, 2002) reports: "The patronage of Wicken church presumably belonged to the lords of the manor until Beatrice Malebisse, then its lady, gave the advowson in 1232 to the newly founded Spinney priory. […] The fabric is mainly of the late 14th century, although the chancel sidewalls' western parts, which retain narrow lancets on each side, are presumably 13th-century. […] a simple, probably 18th-century, font, replaced after 1850" [NB: we have no information on the original font of this church]. There are two modern fonts in this church, probably the two mentioned in the VCH entry above.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 316749 5798918
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.309968, 0.311819
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 18′ 35.89″ N, 0° 18′ 42.55″ E
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.