Bassingbourn / Basingborne

Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2012

Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 24 September 2018)

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view of church exterior - west end

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/bassingbourn.htm] [accessed 20 December 2007]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 February 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2294893] [accessed 6 June 2016]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: altered 13thC font? modern?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Craig A. Shelley, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph by Craig A. Shelley [http://myancestry.org/pictures/BassingbournChurchFont.jpg] [accessed 20 December 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received from author by e-mail

view of font and cover

Scene Description: altered 13thC font? modern?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2012

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 May 2012 by Colin Hinson

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 24 September 2018)

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: altered 13thC font? modern?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 May 2012 by Colin Hinson

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 24 September 2018)

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: altered 13thC font? modern?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 May 2012 by Colin Hinson

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 24 September 2018)

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: altered 13thC font? modern?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 May 2012 by Colin Hinson

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 24 September 2018)

INFORMATION

FontID: 13264BAS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Location: N End Road, Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire SG8 5PD
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A1198, just NW of Royston, 20 km SW of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Arringford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century / 19th century, Early English? / Modern?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Craig A. Shelley and Colin Hinson for their photographs of this font,, and to Mark Ynys-Mon, of Cambridgeshire Churches, for the photograph of the church.
There are three entries for Bassingbourn [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3344/bassingbourn/] [accessed 6 June 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL3306644073] (1967) notes: "Font of polished C13 purbeck marble, octagonal bowl on circular plinth with eight shafts." The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 8, 1982) notes: "The church of Bassingbourn, established by 1200, originally belonged to Richmonds manor [...] The octagonal font is probably 14th-century." The baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin with slightly tapering sides decorated with pairs of trefoiled windows, raised on a central cylindrical shaft and eight outer colonnettes, on an octagonal lower base and a similarly-shaped plinth. The flat wooden cover is round, with metal decoration and ring handle. The whole appears modern, rather 19th-century, but it may be the result of restoration or re-tooling.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.079175, -0.059001
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 4′ 45.03″ N, 0° 3′ 32.41″ W
UTM: 30U 701523 5773926

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-06-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.