Little Missenden / Messedena / Missedene / Musindone

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design element - motifs - braid

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design element - motifs - leaf - acanthus - beaded-tape

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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design element - patterns - fluted

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01335MIS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Little Missenden, Buckinghamshire, HP7 0QY

Country Name: England

Location: Buckinghamshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the A413, 5 km NW of Amersham, 5 km SE of Great Missenden

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Stone [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Aylesbury

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, almost opposite the S entrance [cf. FontNotes]

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Aylesbury group

Cognate Fonts: Great Kimble, Risborough Priors, Bledlow, etc.

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

Church Notes: Church is renowned for its 13-15th century series of wall-paintings, with some fragments from 12th and 18th centuries.

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There are three entries for [Little] Missenden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU9298/little-missenden/] [accessed 30 September 2015], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Sheahan (1862) wrote: "The font is large and a part, of it is inserted in a wall." [NB: must have been removed soon thereafter]. Described in Cox & Harvey (1907): chalice-shaped baptismal font of the Norman period; it has a grooved/ribbed basin ornamented with a horizontal band of foliage; "obviously done by the same workman or workmen" as the fonts at Great Kimble, Risborough Priors and Bledlow. Bond (1908) describes it as "a fine chalice font", of a type characteristic in Buckinghamshire. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 2, 1908) notes only the later font: "The font is of the local 17th-century type, with a fluted bowl and square base with inverted scallops, enriched with foliage carving in the usual manner." Described in the RCAHM (1912) as a font of the Aylesbury type, with date in the late-12th century. Noted in Pevsner (1960): "Font. Cup-shaped, Norman, the lower half fluted, the upper half with horizontal three-lobed leaves." Dated 12th-century in Stockner (1997). Jenkins (1999) describes it as an Aylesbury font, "Norman with a rim of leaves above a fluted base."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.681983, -0.669378

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 40′ 55.14″ N, 0° 40′ 09.76″ W

UTM: 30U 661120 5728240

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

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

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat; Victorian?

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-04-01 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

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

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

Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]

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"]