Englefield / Englafeld / Englafelda / Englefeud / Inglefelle / Inglefield

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - columns with capitals

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design element - motifs - floral - flower - 5-petal

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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view of church exterior - south view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 March 2015 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4374573] [accessed 29 April 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking northeast

Scene Description: the modern (Victorian) funt a nd cover in the foreground, left side

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Image Source: B&W photograph by Adams, in Keyser (1911)

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view of font

Scene Description: the medieval font in the vestry ca. 1911

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Image Source: B&W photograph by Adams, in Keyser (1911)

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Old font. Circular tub font with Romanesque / Gothic transitional decoration, looks early 13th century, no longer used for baptisms at St.Mark's church".

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Victorian octagonal font in St.Mark's church, presumably from the rebuilding of 1857"

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view of piscina

Scene Description: West side

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Ron Baxter, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1101/] [accessed 29 April 2015]

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view of piscina

Scene Description: North side

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view of piscina

Scene Description: Southwest side

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view of piscina - basin

Scene Description: Northwest side

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view of piscina - basin

Scene Description: Upper view

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view of piscina - basin

Scene Description: Southwest side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01306ENG
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mark
Church Patron Saints: St. Mark
Church Location: Off The Street, Englefield, Berkshire, RG7 5EN
Country Name: England
Location: Berkshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the M4, just WNW of Theale, 10 km E of Reading
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford [formerly in the Diocese of Salisbury]
Historical Region: Hundred of Reading [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Theale
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S side
Century and Period: 12th century (late?) / 13th century (early?), Transitional / Early English
There are two entries for Englefield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU6272/englefield/] [accessed 29 April 2015], but no mention of cleric or church in them. The British Museum's Catalogue of the manuscript maps, [...] (vol. 1, 1844: 154) includes an entry for: "Pen and ink sketch of the font in Englefield Church; drawn by Samuel Lysons, Esq.: 6 in. x 4 in. (Add. 9460. fol. 58)". Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "The font is early English, cylindrical, with a trefoiled arcade round it. It is of stone, but has been rudely clouted with wood." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Early English period. Described and illustrated in Keyser (1911) as a baptismal font of the Transitional period located in the vestry, "recently brought back into the Church [...] after having for many years been allowed to lie about in a shed in the churchyard. It is low circular tub-shaped with an arcade of eight rounded trefoilheaded arches on shafts (some have perished) round the bowl, with a rose on the spandril space between the head of each arch. An engaged roll rouns rounds the upper rim and the base, the latter much mutilated. It is probably of early 13th century date, coeval with the aisle arcade and east window." The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 3, 1923) notes: "The church of Englefield is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey, but there was a church of which the advowson was held by the lords of the manor in the second half of the 12th century [...] The font now in use is modern [...] The old font (which was found in the churchyard in 1908 and is now preserved in the vestry) is of the same date as the nave arcade or possibly a little earlier. It is a circular tub font and round it is carved a small arcade of eight trefoiled arches, in the spandrels of which are carved small flowers." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015) with dating of the 12th century: "a disused font of oolitic limestone set on a wooden plinth. It is tub-shaped, lead lined and carved with a trefoil-arched arcade of eight bays on half-shafts with worn rectangular capitals and no bases, only four of which survive. There is a cinquefoil flower in each spandrel. The surface is badly eroded, especially around the rim." [NB: the CRSBI (ibid.) notes and illustrates an interesting pillar piscina of the same period, looking very much like a small font or a stoup]. The Parish web site [www.stmarksenglefield.org.uk/example-page/] [accessed 29 November 2011] notes: "The font dates from the 13th century and was discovered buried in the churchyard about 50 years ago. It was brought back into the church and has recently been restored and reinstated. The later font is Victorian."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.443833, -1.103541
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 26′ 37.8″ N, 1° 6′ 12.75″ W
UTM: 30U 631795 5700889

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (oolitic)
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 10.25 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 53.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 74 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 57 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 57 cm* [no base]
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2015)

REFERENCES

"Church notes, chiefly in Berks, Wilts, and Oxford, with a few in Somerset and Gloucestershire", 44, Archaeological Journal, 1887, pp. 43-50; 185-193; 291-303; 397-402; r["References"]
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-11-29 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: 2011-11-29 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Keyser, Charles E., "Notes on the churches of Aldermaston, Padworth, Englefield and Tidmarsh", 17, No. 1 (April 1911); No.3(Oct. 1911), Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archaeological Journal, 1911, pp. 2-11; 65-76; r["References"]