Farnham Royal / Farnham Verdon / Ferneham

Results: 3 records

symbol - shield

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

view of church exterior - northwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kevin White, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2009 by Kevin White [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1501630] [accessed 2 November 2015]

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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kevin White, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2009 by Kevin White [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1501920] [accessed 2 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 01348FAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Road, Farnham Royal, Buckinghamshire, SL2 3AW
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 3-4 km NW of Slough, 5 km N of Eton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Burnham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: The font at Langley, in the same county
There is an entry for Farnham [Royal] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU9683/farnham-royal/] [accessed 2 November 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Lysons (1806-1833) report an octagonal baptismal font decorated with quatrefoils in this church. Sheahan (1862) describes the church here as "a plain Gothic structure" from a 1821 re-building of an earlier Early English building; the font, Sheahan (ibid.) adds, "is large and ancient, with carved shields and quatrefoils in the panels". With such decoration the font could not be from the original church and, if Sheahan is corrrect in assigning an "ancient" age to the font, it must date from the late-Medieval period, the 14th or 15th century. No font is mentioned in the entry for this church in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912), or in the entry for Farnham Royal in the Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925), but the VCH notes a date in the 12th century for the chancel of the church.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.535164, -0.615303
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 32′ 6.59″ N, 0° 36′ 55.09″ W
UTM: 30U 665390 5712036

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-05-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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
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