Haddenham No. 1 / Hedenham / Hedreham / Hedrehan / Nedreham
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - facing each other or fighting - 2
Scene Description: or salamanders? [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 November 2010 by peet-astn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/5211997349/in/photostream/]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: very broad; it is part of the basin block
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 November 2010 by peet-astn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/5211997349/in/photostream/]
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design element - patterns - scrollwork
Scene Description: some of it appears to be the coiled tails of the dragons
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design element - patterns - zigzag
Scene Description: very tall, resembling ribbing or fluting
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symbol - tree - Tree of life?
Scene Description: between the dragons? [cf. FontNotes]
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view of basin and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 November 2010 by peet-astn [http://www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/5211997349/in/photostream/]
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view of church exterior - west tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ken Goodearl, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Ken Goodearl [http://www.petergoodearl.co.uk/ken/aylesburyfonts/aylesburyfont_pics.htm#aylesbury] [accessed 31 October 2007]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ken Goodearl, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Ken Goodearl [http://www.petergoodearl.co.uk/ken/aylesburyfonts/aylesburyfont_pics.htm#aylesbury] [accessed 31 October 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (email of 29 Oct 2007)
INFORMATION
FontID: 01346HAD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin [aka Our Lady's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Aston Road, Churchend, Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, HP17 8AH
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 3 km NE of Thame, 9 km SW of Aylesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Stone
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Aylesbury group
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Goodearl, of [www.petergoodearl.co.uk/ken/aylesburyfonts/aylesburyfont_pics.htm#aylesbury] and to Peter Austin [aka pete-astn] for their photographs of church and font]
There is an entry for this Haddenham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7408/haddenham/] [accessed 24 September 2015]; it mentions a priest and a church in it. Rickman (1850) and Sheahan (1862) note a "Transition Norman" font here. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Bond (1908) writes that, like the fonts at Harpole and Bridekirk, the ornamentation of this font is made up of intricate scrollwork and a tree in the centre with a fierce beast (salamander? dragon?) on either side. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "In the Domesday Survey the church was held of Archbishop Lanfranc by Gilbert the priest, the large glebe consisting of three hides of land, which were sufficient for one plough. [...] There is some evidence of an aisleless nave earlier than the end of the 12th century, but the general character of the church is of later date, and apparently due to a complete rebuilding begun in the opening years of the 13th century, and carried on slowly, the tower being the latest part of the work, and belonging to the latter part of the century. [...] The font stands close to the western pillar of the south arcade, and is of late 12th-century date, with a tapering circular bowl on a moulded base, resting on a pentagonal block of stone. The bowl has a band of foliage, in which is a dragon, round its upper part, and has tall and narrow scalloped ornament below." Described in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912- ): "circular tapering bowl, with pointed fluting, band at the top carved with two dragons, apparently fighting, their tails merging into foliage, probably late 12th-century, hexagonal stem of later date." Pevsner (1960) mentions "a rough frieze of leaf and dragons". Jenkins (1999) describes it as "Norman of the Aylesbury style, with incised bowl and dragons chasing each other around the rim." Listed in Stocker (1997) as one in a group of "font bowls buried in churchyard or adjacent vicarage garden". The old basin stands now [ca. 2007] on a square pedestal base. [cf. Index entry for Haddenham No.2, Bucks., for the other medieval font of this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.76551,
-0.926916
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 45′ 55.84″ N,
0° 55′ 36.9″ W
UTM: 30U 643053 5736991
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat; appears modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-09-24 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]
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"]
