Cambridge No. 17 / Grentebrige

INFORMATION

Font ID: 20478CAM

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

Church / Chapel Name: [All Saints by the Castle] [in ruins by 1634 -- disappeared]

Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints

Church Address: [Huntingdon Rd]

Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Huntingdon Rd, now the A1307, the location of the disappeared church, is in central Cambridge

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (of the disappeared 11thC (?) church)

Font Notes: Click to view

There are five entries for Cambridge [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4458/cambridge/] [accessed 29 March 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 3, 1959) notes: "It seems probable that there was a church on Castle Hill well before the Norman Conquest. [...] All Saints by the Castle is no longer traceable, its site, on the western side of the Huntingdon Road where it entered the castle enclosure, being occupied by a walled nursery garden."

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UTM: 31U 300856 5790315