Great Kimble / Great Kimbell / Chenebella / Chenebelle / Kenebell / Magna Kymbell / Magna Kynebell

Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

Results: 21 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: on the faces of the cushion base and in the upper spandrels of the cushions

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: painted

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Scene Description: all around

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

design element - patterns - ribbed - concave

Scene Description: reddish paint on them

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of base - east side

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of base - north side

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of base - northwest side

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of base - west side

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of basin - east side

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of basin - north side

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of basin - northwest side

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of basin - west side

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of church exterior - tower

Image Source: digital photograph by Ken Goodearl [www.petergoodearl.co.uk/ken/aylesburyfonts/aylesburyfont_pics.htm#aylesbury] [accessed 31 October 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 29 Oct 2007)

view of font

Image Source: Tyrrell-Green (1928: fig. 81)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: probably an engraving by P.H. de la Motte from a drawing by E.A.R., in Batty (1848)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: engraving in Batty (1848)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font and cover

Image Source: Bond (1908: 56)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font and cover - north side

Image Source: photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of font and cover in context - east side

Image Source: photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of font and cover in context - northwest side

Image Source: photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

view of font and cover in context - west side

Image Source: photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)

INFORMATION

FontID: 01334KIM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Aylesbury Road, Great Kimble, Buckinghamshire, HP17 0XS

Country Name: England

Location: Buckinghamshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located about 10 km S of Aylesbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Stone [in Domesday]

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

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Aylesbury group

Cognate Fonts: Aylesbury, Bledlow, Little Missenden, Risborough Priors, Weston Turville

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Goodearl, of [http://www.petergoodearl.co.uk/ken/aylesburyfonts/aylesburyfont_pics.htm#aylesbury] for his photographs of church and font]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for [Great] Kimble [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP8206/great-kimble/] [accessed 8 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The font here is illustrated in Batty (1848), who notes: "very like that [font] at Aylesbury, with an addition of an upper edge of cable moulding. Remains of vermilion colour appear on the grooved sides." [NB: the engraving is probably by P.H. de la Motte from a drawing by E.A.R.] Both Rickman (1850) and Sheahan (1862) date is as Norman and refer to Batty [cf. supra]. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a chalice-shaped font of the Norman period, "obviously done by the same workman or workmen" as the fonts at Little Missenden, Risborough Priors and Bledlow. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The church of Great Kimble was granted by Giffard Palefridus in the 12th century to the abbot and convent of Missenden. [...] The early history of the church has been much obscured by recent drastic restorations, but sufficient remains to show that the aisles were added about the middle of the 13th century, at which time the nave was of the same size as at present. [...] The font is of the common local type, of late 12thcentury date with a circular scalloped bowl and square scalloped base, the stem being moulded and the rim and base of the bowl richly ornamented with foliage." Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as a Norman chalice-shaped font; the rounded basin has concave rib pattern and a horizontal band of foliage on the upper basin side; near the rim is a rope moulding. The centre ring moulding has either chevron or rope motif all around. The square base has a double-arch shape on top with vegetable ornamentation like an inverted cushion capital. Very similar in shape to the font at Aylesbury. Described in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912), with date in the late-12th century. Described and illustrated in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as an example of font from the Aylesbury group. In Pevsner (1960). Dated 12th century in Stockner (1997). In Drake (2002). The font appears to be in fair shape all around, with minor damage; there are clear traces and patches of paint left on the surface of the font, especially on the fluted pattern and on the centre ring moulding, chiefly red.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.7457, -0.8064

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 44′ 44.52″ N, 0° 48′ 23.04″ W

UTM: 30U 651435 5735032

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) -- chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 10 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 67.5 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 87.5 cm*

Basin Depth: 30 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 107.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [in ft./in. in Batty (1848)

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with locking mechanism; appears old

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-09-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Batty, Robert Eaton, Some particulars connected with the history of baptismal fonts: being a paper read at the quarterly general meeting of the Architectural and Archaeological Society for the County of Buckingham, London: F. & J. Rivington, 1848

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Clapham, Alfred William, English Romanesque Architecture after the Conquest, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Friar, Stephen, The Sutton Companion to Churches, Thrupp, Stroud (Gloucs.): Sutton Publishing, 2003

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of the historical monuments in Buckinghamshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1912-

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960

Sheahan, James Joseph, History and topography of Buckinghamshire, comprising a general survey of the county, preceded by an epitome of the early history of Great Britain, London; Pontefract: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts; William Edward Bonas [...], 1862

Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; r["References"]

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928