Stagsden / Stacheden / Stachesdene / Stagesden / Stagsden

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Apostle or saint - unidentified

Scene Description: one in each of the arches of the basin sides -- the font probably 14th-century, but believed to have been re-carved in the 17th century

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angel - cherub - head

Scene Description: the font probably 14th-century, but believed to have been re-carved in the 17th century

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design element - motifs - floral and foliage

Scene Description: the font probably 14th-century, but believed to have been re-carved in the 17th century

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the colonnettes of the base -- the font probably 14th-century, but believed to have been re-carved in the 17th century

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design element - motifs - panel - octafoiled - cusped

Scene Description: the font probably 14th-century, but believed to have been re-carved in the 17th century

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: the old lead lining

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view of church exterior - south view

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01235STA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Church Location: Stagsden, Bedfordshire, MK43 8SQ
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off the A422, 5-6 SSW of Bedford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Willey
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century [re-cut in the 17th century], Decorated [altered]
Cognate Fonts: The font at Kempston, in the same county
Lysons (1806-1833) a font here among a group of octagonal fonts made mostly of Totternhoe stone, the basin decorated with "figures under Gothic canopies" on the sides", and raised on a cluster of columns. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example of 14th-century baptismal font, "curiously carved". The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "Stagsden Church formed part of the original endowment of Newnham Priory by Simon de Beauchamp (t. Henry II) [1154-1189] [...] The font is square with the angles chamfered off and rests on a central column of similar plan and four free octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases; it is of the 14th century. The bowl is plain except for two faces, that on the north having the figure of a bearded man and the north-east a woman's figure, both very poorly worked and probably much later than the font; the chamfer below the bowl is ornamented with ball flowers." Pevsner (1968) writes: "Font. Square, with chamfered corners, Dec[orated]. In two panels small single features, re-cut probably in the C17. On the underside ballflower and some other decoration."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.1313, -0.5663
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 7′ 52.68″ N, 0° 33′ 58.68″ W
UTM: 30U 666573 5778435

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [chalk / Totternhoe stone?]
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-09-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
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