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Image Source: drawing by J. Basire in Gough (1792)
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Angella Streluk, 2007
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 - south porch
![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](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1110408001_compressed.png)
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 interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Addison, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 April 2007 by Martin Addison [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/399789]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cameraman, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2009 by Cameraman [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1464239]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ronbertfrost1960, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 May 2010 by robertfrost1960 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/32157648@N08/4592197393/]
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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norfolk12, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by Norfolk12 in Waymarking [http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMB3GQ_Church_door_Stewkley_Bucks]
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
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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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Image Source: old print [source unknown] for sale at www.old-print.com
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01021STE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael & All Angels
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]
Church Address: High St N, Stewkley, Buckinghamshire LU7 0EW
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
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 Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U E 653852 N 5755284
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 55` 61.43" N, 0° 45' 73.35"
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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 187
- 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; p. 188 and pl. XXV
- 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, [entry no.] 89 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=maikb1i3wSUC&pg=PT265&lpg=PT265&dq=towersey+church+font&source=bl&ots=p3keqKFFdN&sig=qRXxsvjY8p3VMVj8NHklip-Nlhg&hl=en&ei=5-PgSen8D4LEM_jPjf8I&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2#PPT265,M1] [accessed 12 April 2009]
- 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, p. 754
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 18