Cambridge No. 20 / Grentebrige

INFORMATION

Font ID: 20496CAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Early English
Church / Chapel Name: St. Edmund's Chapel
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Edmund
Church Address: Mount Pleasant, Cambridge CB3 0BN, United Kingdom
Site Location: Cambridgeshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: The chapel is now part of St. Edmund's College, Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Cambridge
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the early-13thC 'ecclesia' here)
Font Notes:
There are five entries for Cambridge [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4458/cambridge/] [accessed 11 April 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 3, 1959) notes: "first mentioned in 1232; how much earlier the chapel existed is unknown. The building is called an ecclesia and its chaplain is styled custos or rector, and there were burials there." The VCH (Cambridge..., vol. 2, 1948) notes: "The author of the Liber Memorandorum records that the [Gilbertine] canons of Sempringham were living at St. Edmund's Chapel first in 1291". [NB: the Chapel has traditionally maintained Roman Catholic cult, which would include a font for the blessing on Holy Saturday; we have no information on the font of this chapel].

COORDINATES

UTM: 31U 302473 5788663
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.212943, 0.108675
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 12′ 46.6″ N, 0° 6′ 31.23″ E

REFERENCES

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