Eaton Bray / Eitona / Eitone / Eytona
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: on the capitals of the outer colonnettes, at basin-level
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2013 by Tim [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/images/buildings/en/035/035922-90760-800.jpg] [accessed 21 September 2015]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: on the bases of the columns
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: above and below the leaf capitals
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tim, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2013 by Tim [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/images/buildings/en/035/035922-90760-800.jpg] [accessed 21 September 2015]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Hillas, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2011 by David Hillas [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4136042] [accessed 21 September 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary the Virgin - Eaton Bray. The church dates to the 13th Century and is built from stone quarried in the nearby village of Totternhoe."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Addison, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2006 by Martin Addison [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/147319] [accessed 21 September 2015]
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view of font
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Image Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 61)
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view of font
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01097EAT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 2 Church Lane, Eaton Bray, Bedfordshire, LU6 2DP
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located 3m W of Dunstable, off the A4146
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Manshead
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, just W of the S doorway
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Cognate Fonts: Leighton Buzzard and Holwell, also in Bedfordshire; Belaugh in Norfolk
Church Notes: Externally, a complete 15th-century reconstruction and a simple modern W tower effectively cloak an interior - the core of the original 13th-century building - which has nave arcades. That on the N is more ornamental with deep mouldings and leaf-carving on the capitals. On the arcade the decoration is simpler with ornamented corbels at the end. Thomas of Leighton was responsible for the 13th-century iron work of the S door, similar in design to his door at Turvey. The village may have been the centre of the Totternhoe stone school of carving.
There is an entry for Eaton [Bray] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9720/eaton-bray/] [accessed 21 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of circular fonts: “in the shape of a bason standing on five pillars, some of which have capitals of foliage” [Leighton Buzzard and Holwell are two others in this group]. Described and illustrated in Cox-Harvey (1907) and Bond (1908): Early English stone font; the large bowl rests on a stout central column and four corner shafts with foliated ornament in their capitals ; the central column and the shafts rest on a series of rather heavy cylindrical bases and the whole on a square plinth; although the basin itself is hemispherical the rim overlaps the corner shafts and makes the font look almost square from above. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "Eaton Church was granted to Merton Priory by King Stephen some time between 1126 and the date of his accession" [i.e., 1135] [...] The north arcade of the nave is admirable work of c. 1220, and the south arcade, though of simpler character, is nearly contemporary with it. [...] The font is of 13th-century character, with a round bowl on a central and four detached columns having capitals carved with foliage like that of the north aisle, but only the bowl and central shaft are old." Tyrrell-Green (1928) calls it a "very graceful Early English specimen" of the Bodmin-type font; the four columns which "suspend" the basin have capitals that "are adorned with conventional foliage, such as is characteristic of the style" (ibid., p. 90). In Betjeman (1958) as a font of "very satisfying design". Jenkins (1999: 6) describes it as "a work of superb quality."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.8764,
-0.5938
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 52′ 35.04″ N,
0° 35′ 37.68″ W
UTM: 30U 665630 5750028
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: quatrefoiled - mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoiled
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-10-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Cox, John Charles J., English Church Fittings Furniture and Accessories, London: B.T. Batsford, 1922
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003
Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]
Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
