Beedon / Bedene / Bedone / Budene / Bydene
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stuart Logan, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2011 by Stuart Logan [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2355727] [accessed 12 May 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Nicholas Church, Beedon. Built of flint the nave and chancel date from circa 1200-30. Note the lancet windows and the shingled broach spire."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stuart Logan, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2011 by Stuart Logan [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2355727] [accessed 12 May 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Ron Baxter, CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/894/] [accessed 12 May 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01303BEE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Stanmore Road, Beedon, Berkshire RG20 8SW
Country Name: England
Location: Berkshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A34, 10 km N of Newbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford [formerly in the Diocese of Salisbury]
Historical Region: Hundred of Rowbury [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Faircross
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Date: ca. 1220?
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Early English
There is an entry for Beedon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4878/beedon/] [accessed 12 May 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Parker (1850) notes: "The font is plain round E[arly] E[nglish]". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The building dates almost wholly from about 1220, the plan remaining unaltered [...] The font is probably contemporary with the church, and is of tub form, tapering down to a plinth or base mould with a roll edge." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "At W end of nave. Plain and tub-shaped with a half-round moulding around the foot. The tub rests on two cylindrical modern plinths. The font is unlined and there are marks of locks on the plain rim." [NB: the CRSBI entry for Beedon states: "The Domesday Survey records a church, a mill and 100 acres of meadow there too.", but we found no church recorded in the entry [cf. supra]]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.4999,
-1.3067
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 29′ 59.64″ N,
1° 18′ 24.12″ W
UTM: 30U 617533 5706777
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm*
Basin Total Height: 56 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2015)
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-10-31 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2011-10-31 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850
