Drayton Beauchamp / Draitone / Dreiton / Druton Bechame
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Image Source: engraving [probably by P.H. de la Motte from a drawing by E.A.R.] in Batty (1848)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © William Salt Library, 2007
Image Source: 1838 drawing by John Buckler, in the William Salt Library, the Staffordshire Archives
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: all around [cf. Font notes]
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2011 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2610808] [accessed 16 November 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01344DRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Lane, Drayton Beauchamp, Buckinghamshire HP22 5LT
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 9-10 km ESE of Aylesbury off A41
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Cottesloe [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Drayton [Beauchamp] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9011/drayton-beauchamp/] [accessed 16 November 2015], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Lysons (1806-1833) report a round baptismal font decorated with arches in this church. Illustrated in 1838 drawing by John Buckner, in the William Salt Library collection of the Staffordshire Archive: "'Font in Drayton Beauchamp Church, Buckinghamshire.' Showing a drum-shaped basin with engraved arches, on a short shaft with a round flat base. 'J. B.,' [John Buckler]. 4.5 inches x 4 inches." Noted and illustrated in Batty (1848) [probably an engraving by P.H. de la Motte from a drawing by E.A.R.] as "a font manifestly of earlier origin than the church in which it is [...] Circular bowl, stem, and plinth; surrounded by plain Norman arcade. It has been recently lined with lead, and the bason removed, at the recoomendation of the Diocesan. This font acquires additional interest as belonging to the church of Hooker's first incumbency." Described in Rickman (1850): "The font is N[orman], round with a series of narrow round-headed arches panelled on it." Ditto in Sheahan (1862). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted and illustrated in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912): "circular bowl, decorated with arcade of round arches on columns with cushion capitals, moulded base, early or mid 12th-century." The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "The present church dates from the 15th century, but the still surviving font shows that there was a church here in the 12th century, which was altered and partly rebuilt in the two following centuries [...] The font, which dates from the 12th century, is circular, and has a short plain stem and a moulded base, while its bowl is enriched by a continuous arcade in low relief of round arches divided by small pillars." Pevsner (1960) notes: "Font. Cylindrical, Norman, with tall blank arcading." Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a Norman font the basin of which is decorated with an "arcade in relief, imitating closely the structural arcade of the period".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 659049 5741144
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.7985, -0.6934
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 47′ 54.6″ N, 0° 41′ 36.24″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 7.25 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 55.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm*
Basin Depth: 32.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 48.75 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 92.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in inches, in Batty (1848)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat; modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. 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, p. 23 and plate
- 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. 135, 136 and pl. p. xxvii
- Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822, vol. I: p. 489
- 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.] 69
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960, p. 111
- 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. 665
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 76