Cambridge No. 19 / Grentebrige

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage - trefoiled - 5

Scene Description: the motif in this spandrel has survived quite well, but the ripe moulding is totally worn smooth [NB: the moulding on the left is a modern reconstruction]

Image Source: photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/385/] [accessed 7 April 2016]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: two versions seen here, on the south side of the basin: the left half is the damaged original; the right half is the modern replacement -- Source caption: "Cambridge: St Peter - 11th-century font. 'Font. Square, Norman, with fish-men at the angles, holding their twin tails. The tails and arms form a symmetrical pattern on each side' (Nikolaus Pevsner). I wonder if the face on the right (SE) corner has been recarved at some stage - the other three are very blurred. The pillar on which the font now stands was found four feet below floor level by workmen repairing the foundations; it may be Roman. The only other English font with mermen (which came to be associated with baptism) is at Anstey, Hertfordshire"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 December 2010 by John Sutton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2199625] [accessed 7 April 2016]

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human figure - grotesque or fantastic - siren - bicaudal - 4

Scene Description: two versions seen here, on the south side of the basin: the left half is the damaged original; the right half is the modern replacement of the upper body and head of that merman

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 December 2010 by John Sutton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2199625] [accessed 7 April 2016]

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view of basin - east side

Image Source: photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/385/] [accessed 7 April 2016]

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view of basin - north side

Image Source: photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/385/] [accessed 7 April 2016]

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view of basin - northeast side

Scene Description: facial features appear to be Negroid, probably underlining exoticism

Image Source: photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/385/] [accessed 7 April 2016]

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view of basin - south side

Image Source: photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/385/] [accessed 7 April 2016]

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view of basin - west side

Image Source: photograph in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/385/] [accessed 7 April 2016]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2007 by Fractal Angel [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/492178] [accessed 7 April 2016]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Cambridge: St Peter. The tiny church of St Peter, on Castle Hill, is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. Much of the building was rebuilt in 1781, but the south doorway is C13th and the spire C14th."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 December 2010 by John Sutton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2199646] [accessed 7 April 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: with the top of the old font basin in the foreground [west] and the altar at the far [east] end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2012 by Ben [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3166244] [accessed 7 April 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Peter's Church, font. This medieval font has an unusual motif of mermen on the corners."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2008 by Keith Edkins [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/759643] [accessed 7 April 2016]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2014 by Vysotsky [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cambridge108.JPG] [accessed 7 April 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20491CAM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter by the Castle [St. Peter beyond the bridge]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter [later St. Peter & St. Paul]

Church Location: St Peter's Street, Cambridge CB3 0BH

Country Name: England

Location: Cambridgeshire, East

Directions to Site: Located on Castle St., between Honey Hill and Kettle's Yard

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely

Historical Region: Hundred of Cambrisge

Font Location in Church: Inside the re-built church

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are five entries for Cambridge [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4458/cambridge/] [accessed 7 April 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 3, 1959) notes: "This little church measuring 15 by 35 feet, and used today only for children's services, is the remnant of one that went back to the 12th century, and consisted of a nave, chancel, south aisle, and west tower and spire. The aisle had already been destroyed when Cole sketched and described the church in 1742. [...] The church ceased to be used in 1749 and was roofless and windowless by 1772. In 1780 there was talk of using its fabric for roadmending, [...] but in 1781 it was rebuilt, under a brief, on a reduced scale, largely from the old material, including, it is believed, some Roman bricks. The south doorway and the bowl of the font, both of the late Norman period, survive from the old church. [...] Under a commission dated 1349 the church was dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2016): "12thc. font [...] At the W end of the nave, a square bowl on a columnar stand of ashlar blocks. The base has a roll necking above a low roll. The basin has a circular roll necking too. It is decorated with mermen at the angles, with forked tails, which they hold out on either side to form curves, which meet at the centre of each face of the bowl. Above this, in the upper centre of each face, is a pair of fluted leaves. The upper rim has a roll edge. There is a repair to the rim at the SE corner involving a new head for the merman and sections of cable moulding on the rim. The interior is circular and lead lined."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.211056, 0.113889

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 12′ 39.8″ N, 0° 6′ 50″ E

UTM: 31U 302821 5788439

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Diameter (inside rim): 56 cm*

Basin Total Height: 43 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 103 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 69 x 70 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2016)

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2016-04-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2016-04-07 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.