Odell / Odley / Odyll / Wadehelle / Wadelle / Wahul / Wahull / Wodhull / Woodhill
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Results: 7 records
view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph 2008 source: Bedford Borough Council [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk] [accessed 14 September 2011]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bedford Borough Council, 2008
Image Source: drawing of 1868 [ref.: Z50/86/60] and photo of 2008: source: Bedford Borough Council [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk] [accessed 14 September 2011]
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design element - architectural - arch or window - cinquefoiled - 16
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bedford Borough Council, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 2008 source: Bedford Borough Council [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk] [accessed 14 September 2011]
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design element - patterns - crenellated
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bedford Borough Council, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 2008 source: Bedford Borough Council [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk] [accessed 14 September 2011]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ben Mills, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2006 by Ben Mills [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AllSaintsChurch-Odell.jpg] [accessed 11 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Released by its auhtor into the public domain / PD-user
design element - architectural - arch or window - cinquefoiled - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bedford Borough Council, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 2008 source: Bedford Borough Council [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk] [accessed 14 September 2011]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bedford Borough Council, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 2008 source: Bedford Borough Council [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk] [accessed 14 September 2011]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01277ODE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Church Lane, Odell, Bedfordshire MK43 7AA -- Tel: 01234 720234
Site Location: Bedfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 4-5 km W of the A6, 12 km NNW of Bedford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Willey
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (from the earlier church ca. 1235?)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Odell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9658/odell/] [accessed 11 September 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. There is a 1868 drawing of this font [[ref.: Z50/86/60] Bedford Borough Council [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk] [accessed 14 September 2011]. Noted in Kelly's county directory of 1898: "the font is octagonal and has traceried panels". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The first mention [of a church in Odell] has been found in 1235 [...] The church of All Saints is a good example of a 15th-century church built all at one time [...] The font, which is in the south aisle, is of the same date as the church, and is octagonal with cinquefoiled panelling on the bowl." Noted in Pevsner (1968): "Font. Octagonal, Perp, with tracery motifs."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 664893 5787341
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.2118, -0.5865
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 12′ 42.48″ N, 0° 35′ 11.4″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal pyramidal; date unknown
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. 186
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 130