Felmersham / Falmeresham/ Flammeresham / Flammersham

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph in St Mary's site [www.felmersham.net/churchfurnishings.htm] [accessed 11 September 2015]

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Scene Description: baptism in progress in the old font

Image Source: digital photograph in Felmersham.net [www.felmersham.net/church] [accessed 13 September 2011]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: FONT digital photograph in St Mary's site [www.felmersham.net/churchfurnishings.htm] [accessed 11 September 2015] NO KNOWN -- Source caption: "Font, possible date, 1220/1240. The top of the font was raised with a course of stone and the blind tracery added in 1895. Wooden Cover - restored by Fred Turner."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 March 2014 by David Kemp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3892577] [accessed 11 September 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary, Felmersham - west crossing arch. Four massive but delicate arches like this support the central tower of the church."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 March 2014 by David Kemp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3892578] [accessed 11 September 2015]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph in St Mary's site [www.felmersham.net/churchfurnishings.htm] [accessed 11 September 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01251FEL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church End, Felmersham, Bedfordshire MK43 7HL

Country Name: England

Location: Bedfordshire, East

Directions to Site: Located just W of Radwell and the A6, 10 km NW of Bedford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

Historical Region: Hundred of Willey

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century [restored], Early English [altered]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Felmersham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9957/felmersham/] [accessed 11 September 2015], neither of which mentons cleric or church in it. Rickman (1835) notes that this church "contains some of the best Early English work in the county ", but does not mention the font. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The church of St. Mary the Virgin [...] begun about 1220, and carried through to completion in some twenty years [...] The font near the south doorway is an octagonal block with trefoiled panels, and an 18th-century domed cover with a hinged door on the west side." The VCH entry (ibid.) notes also: "East of the south doorway is a recess for holy water." The font may have been restored or altered ca. 1919, for a "Plan for alterations to the font at Felmersham Church by J.P. White & Sons Ltd, the Pyghtle Works, Bedford P93/2/2/12 18 August 1919" is listed in the parish records in the National Archives [www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=004-p93&cid=2-2-10#2-2-10] [accessed 13 September 2011]. The Feldersham.net site [www.felmersham.net/churchfurnishings.htm] [accdessed 13 September 2011] illustrates the font with the following note: "Font, possible date, 1220/1240. The top of the font was raised with a course of stone and the blind tracery added in 1895. Wooden Cover - restored by Fred Turner".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.2099, -0.5505

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 12′ 35.64″ N, 0° 33′ 1.8″ W

UTM: 30U 667359 5787212

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: octagonal (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th-century?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-09-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

Rickman, Thomas, An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England, from the Conquest to the Reformation, with a Sketch of the Grecian and Roman Orders, An [7th ed. -- orig. published in 1817], Oxford and London: Parker and Co., 1881