Cuddington nr. Aylesbury / Coddington / Codyntone / Cudintuna
Image copyright © John Salmon, 1994
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 1994
Image Source: photograph taken June 1994 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3267049] [accessed 25 September 2015]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: this are of the upper basin side appears to have been broken off and later cemented back on
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 November 2010 by peet-stn [www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/5212972620/]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches
Scene Description: most of the arches are rather rounded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 November 2010 by peet-stn [www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/5212972620/]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oswald Bertram, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 July 2015 by Oswald Bertram [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4660836] [accessed 24 September 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 1994
Image Source: photograph taken June 1994 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3267046] [accessed 25 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 November 2010 by peet-stn [www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/5212972620/]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01343CUD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the narrow S aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Upper Church Street, Cuddington, Buckinghamshire, HP18 0AP
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located about 9 kms WSW of Aylesbury, by the Oxon border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Stone
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original 11th-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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No entry found for this Cuddington in the Domesday survey. Sheahan (1862) reports this church "was thoroughly restored in 1858" but "the font, which is ancient and large, has a handsome oaken and iron-bound covering." Listed in Rickman (1850) and in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The chapel of Cuddington was appendant to the church of Haddenham, and was held by the Priory of St. Andrew, Rochester [...] In the 12th century there existed an aisleless nave of the same width as now, but perhaps a little shorter from east to west, with a chancel smaller in both dimensions than that now in existence. [...] The font is of late 12th-century date, having a slightly tapering circular bowl, carved with narrow pointed flutings, and a short stem with a roll-moulded base." Described in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912): "Font: circular bowl, ornamented with shallow arcade of pointed arches, moulded circular base, 13th-century." Noted in Pevsner (1960): "Font. C12, tub-shaped with tapering sides. Decorated with tall, thin, blank arches." The Cuddington Historical Society [www.bucksinfo.net/cuddingtonhistorysociety/cuddington-s-church/] informs: "There has been a church on this site since the late 11th century, at least [...] Nothing remains of that building however, and much of today's church was constructed in no less than four stages during the 13th century [...] The font dates from the early 13th century and has a fine oak and iron bound lid. It was originally placed near the north door and had a wooden lid in the shape of a pyramid, which was raised by counter-balanced pulleys." [NB: we have no information on the font from the original 11th-century church].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Austin [aka pete-astn] for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 642559 5740215
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.794605, -0.932751
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 47′ 40.58″ N, 0° 55′ 57.91″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: [cf. FontNotes]
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 187
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of the historical monuments in Buckinghamshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1912-, p. 111
- 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, [entry no.] 184
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960, p. 102
- 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, p. 111