Ickleton / Hichelintone / Inchelintone

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary Magdalen, Ickleton. C11 church. The height of the tower was increased C14. There was a fire in 1979 and the repair work that followed revealed a set of C12 frescoes."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bikeboy, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 June 2014 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4032941] [accessed 24 May 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the modern font and cover are partially visible at the far end, left [south] side of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lynne Glazzard, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2003 by Lynne Glazzard [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/291154] [accessed 24 May 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - painting

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view of font

Scene Description: the old and battered 14thC font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2016 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4953680] [accessed 24 May 2016]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 20573ICK
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalen [formerly St. Mary the Virgin]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene [formerly dedicated to St. Mary]
Church Location: Church Street, Ickleton, Cambridgeshire CB10 1SR
Country Name: England
Location: Cambridgeshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off the B1383, just N of the forking M11-A11, ESE of Cambridge
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Ely
Historical Region: Hundred of Whittlesford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Font Notes:
There are two entries for Ickleton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL4943/ickleton/] [accessed 24 May 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: TL4947443858] (1967) reports: "Font, possibly C14, octagonal bowl with hollow-chamfered soffit, octagonal stem and chamfered base." The Victoria County History (Cambridge..., vol. 6, 1978) notes: "Ickleton church has not been found in records before the 14th century, but its architecture shows it to date from c. 1100 [...] The cruciform plan is largely determined by the surviving parts of the early-12th-century church, which was a substantial building with an aisled nave of four bays, in which two piers in each arcade are thought to be re-used monolithic columns from a Roman building"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry. There appear to be two fonts in this church; the old 14th-century one reported in the EH entry above, and a modern font in use; the latter has a wooden font cover, octagonal pyramid with crocketed arrises, probably Victorian; counterweight lifting apparatus.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.072, 0.178
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 4′ 19.2″ N, 0° 10′ 40.8″ E
UTM: 31U 306598 5772804

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: yes; counterweight
Notes: on the modern font [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Blagg, T.M., "Haughton Chapel", 35 (1930), Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 1930, pp. [?]; Cambridge and the Isle of Ely, vol. 6: 230-246 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol6/pp230-246] [accessed 24 May 2016]