Wilden / Wildene
Image copyright © Chris Stafford, 2015
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Stafford, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph by Chris Stafford, reproduced in the St. Nicholas Center [www.stnicholascenter.org/galleries/gazetteer/1488/5/] [accessed 16 September 2015]
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symbol - shield - emblem - cross
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Stafford, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph by Chris Stafford, reproduced in the St. Nicholas Center [www.stnicholascenter.org/galleries/gazetteer/1488/5/] [accessed 16 September 2015]
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design element - motifs - floral
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Stafford, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph by Chris Stafford, reproduced in the St. Nicholas Center [www.stnicholascenter.org/galleries/gazetteer/1488/5/] [accessed 16 September 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dave Thompson, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 July 2015 by Dave Thompson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4572258] [accessed 16 September 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Stafford, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph by Chris Stafford, reproduced in the St. Nicholas Center [www.stnicholascenter.org/galleries/gazetteer/1488/5/] [accessed 16 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01282WIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: High Street, Wilden, Bedfordshire, MK44 2PB
Site Location: Bedfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just E of the B660, 8 km NNE of Bedford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Great Barford
Additional Comments: damaged font (the present font was restored in 1837) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Wilden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL0955/wilden/] [accessed 16 September 2015], but it mentions neither celric nor church in it. A font here is noted in Lysons (1806-1833) as one of a group of octagonal fonts made mostly of Totternhoe stone: "Wilden has shields and quatrefoils". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The earliest mention of Wilden Church is in 1231 [...] he western half of the south wall of the nave dates from c. 1340, and there is no evidence of earlier work except a 13th-century piscina in the chancel, which is probably reset. [...] The font stands at the west end of the nave, and is 15th-century work, with an octagonal bowl panelled on six sides, and having alternately a shield charged with a plain or flowered cross and tracery or flower patterns; the bowl rests on an octagonal shaft and base, and was repaired in 1837."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 677647 5784680
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.183941, -0.401415
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 11′ 2.19″ N, 0° 24′ 5.09″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone [chalk / Totternhoe stone?]
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: plain, flat octagonal platform with small carved dome with gilded finial
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
- 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. 31
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 162