Drayton Parslow / Draighton Perselow / Draigtone Passelewe / Draintone / Draitone / Draitone Passele / Drayton Parsloe / Drayton Passelew
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RCHME, 1913
Image Source: B&W photograph in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire, vol. 2, p. 10 (London, 1913) [www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/bucks/vol2/plate-10 [accessed 16 November 2015]
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design element - patterns - crenellated
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RCHME, 1913
Image Source: B&W photograph in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire, vol. 2, p. 10 (London, 1913) [www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/bucks/vol2/plate-10 [accessed 16 November 2015]
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symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RCHME, 1913
Image Source: B&W photograph in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire, vol. 2, p. 10 (London, 1913) [www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/bucks/vol2/plate-10 [accessed 16 November 2015]
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Motacilla, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2012 by Motacilla [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DraytonParslow_HolyTrinity_north.JPG] [accessed 16 November 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Motacilla, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2012 by Motacilla [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DraytonParslow_HolyTrinity_south.JPG] [accessed 16 November 2015]
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design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - crocketed and pinnacled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RCHME, 1913
Image Source: B&W photograph in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire, vol. 2, p. 10 (London, 1913) [www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/bucks/vol2/plate-10 [accessed 16 November 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01162DRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Address: 1 Main Road, Drayton Parslow, Buckinghamshire MK17 0JS
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located of the B4032, 5 km NE of Winslow
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Cottesloe [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the early-13thC church here [cf. FontNotes])
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Drayton [Parslow] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8328/drayton-parslow/] [accessed 16 November 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Lysons (1806-1833) write of baptismal font "with Gothic canopies, over which are shields, with coats of arms" [NB: Lysons use spelling "Drayton-Passelew" for this location -- The Passelews were lords of the manor since ca. 1100]. Described in Parker (1850): "The best thing in the church is the font, which is D[ecorated], hexagonal in plan, with good angular ogee canopies divided by buttresses and pinnacles; there are shields bearing arms at each angle, and the bowl has good bold mouldings finished by a battlement." Ditto in Sheahan (1862), who identifies the material as "Tatternhoe stone". [NB: Tatternhoe, formerly Totternhoe, etc., [Totenhoe / Totene Hou in Domesday] is located northeast of Houghton Regis, Bedfs.] Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a heraldic baptismal font of the 14th century, in the Decorated style, "of much merit". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "The church of Drayton Parslow is first mentioned in 1232 as in the patronage of the Crown [...] The church is apparently almost entirely of early 15th-century date, but in 1863 the whole building was restored. [...] The 15th-century font is hexagonal, with sunk panelled sides surmounted by cinquefoiled ogee projecting canopies crocketed and with poppy-head finials; the bowl is moulded and embattled, and has on each angle a shield, three of which are charged with a cheveron between three lions' heads, two, bendy sinister in chief a lion passant, and one, the reverse of the last." Pevsner (1960) mentions a castellated top, and tall ogee arches on the stem.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 652323 5757554
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.947809, -0.78362
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 56′ 52.11″ N, 0° 47′ 1.03″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, Tatternhoe stone
Font Shape: hexagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat; modern
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. 170, 187
- Eisold, Norbert, Sachsen-Anhalt: zwischen Harz und Fläming, Elbe, Unstrut und Saale - eine denkmalreihe Kulturlandshaft, Ostfildern: DuMont Reiseverlag, 2005, p. 668
- 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, vol. I: p. 489
- 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.] 70
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960, p. 111