Wilden / Wildene

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design element - motifs - floral

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 - quatrefoil - cusped

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symbol - shield - emblem - cross

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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

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

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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INFORMATION

FontID: 01282WIL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: High Street, Wilden, Bedfordshire, MK44 2PB

Country Name: England

Location: Bedfordshire, East

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.183941, -0.401415

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 11′ 2.19″ N, 0° 24′ 5.09″ W

UTM: 30U 677647 5784680

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-. Accessed: 2011-10-17 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