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view of church exterior - south porch

Scene Description: the porch itself is Victorian (1860s), but the portal inside is Norman digital photograph taken 20 August 2009 by Cameraman [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1464230] Creative Commons Licence

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view of church exterior - west end - detail

Scene Description: probably a 19th-century source; an illustration of the font itself is noted, but not shown, in this print

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view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: photograph taken 10 September 1995 by Angella Streluk [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/149222]

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view of church exterior - west portal - detail

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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum - detail

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 April 2007 by Martin Addison [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/399789]

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view of font

Image Source: drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01021STE

Church/Chapel: Church of St. Michael and All Angels

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels

Church Location: High St N, Stewkley, Buckinghamshire LU7 0EW

Country Name: England

Location: Buckinghamshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the B4032, 7 km WNW of Leighton Buzzard, 8 km E of Winslow, 12 km N of Aylesbury on B4032, about 10 km S of Milton Keynes

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Mursley [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Cottesloe

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Norman

Church Notes: By far the best and most complete example of Norman architecture in Buckinghamshire; W front is richly Norman; may have been built fy Geoffrey de Clinton; 'modest' restoration by G.E. Street in the 1860s [source: www.bucks-historic-churches.org/buckshc/buckshc/stewkley.html]

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There are two entries for Stewkley [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8526/stewkley/] [accessed 23 November 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Catalogue of the manuscript, maps... of the British Museum [Add. 9460. fol. 94] lists: "A pencil drawing of the font in Stewkley Church; by Samuel Lysons, Esq.: 4 in. x 3 in. Noted, with a drawing by J. Basire, in Gough (1792) as a baptismal font "of the age of Henry I" [i.e., ca. 1100]. Noted in Parker (1850) as a plain round font of the Norman period. Parker (ibid.) refers to an engraving of this font in 'Archaeologia' (vol. x, pl. 17). Described in Sheahan (1862): "The font Is quite plain, and has been formed out of a single block of stone". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "The building, which dates from the middle of the 12th century, is a particularly well-preserved example of the best style of architecture of that time, the few alterations which have been made having affected the original detail to a very slight extent [...] The font is probably of 12th-century date, and has a plain circular tapering bowl with a moulded base." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a tub-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period. Monolithic tub font consisting of a plain bucket-shaped basin raised on a two-step lower base [or lower-base & plinth combination].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 55` 61.43" N, 0° 45' 73.35"

UTM: 30U E 653852 N 5755284

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-05-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; r["References"]

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850

Sheahan, James Joseph, History and topography of Buckinghamshire, comprising a general survey of the county, preceded by an epitome of the early history of Great Britain, London; Pontefract: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; William Edward Bonas [...], 1862

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928