Longstowe / Stou

INFORMATION

Font ID: 17271DAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Longstowe, Cambridgeshire CB23 2UU
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 18 km W of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Longstowe
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the ca.1100 church here)
Font Notes:
There are three entries for Longstowe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL3155/longstowe/] [accessed 16 May 2016], neither of which mention cleric or church in it. According to the RCHM (1968) the tower dates back to the 14th or 15th century. The Victoria County History (Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 5, 1973) notes: "There was probably a church at Longstowe by c. 1100, belonging to Ramsey Abbey", and adds that one of the surviving bells is from ca. 1450; the VCH also notes that the church was re-bult in 1863-1864, but mentions no font in it. [NB: we have no information of the medieval font(s)]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 699257 5785209
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.181304, -0.085421
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 10′ 52.69″ N, 0° 5′ 7.52″ W

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. 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, vol. 1: 173