Horton nr. Wraysbury / Hortone / Horhtun / Hortune
Image copyright © Parish of Horton St. Michael's, 2009
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of Horton St. Michael's, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish site [www.stmichaels-horton.org/horton/horton-history-building.php] [accessed 12 April 2009]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parish of Horton St. Michael's, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish site [www.stmichaels-horton.org/horton/horton-history-building.php] [accessed 12 April 2009]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of church exterior - north portal
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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ej.culley, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2007 by Ej. Culley [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton,_Berkshire]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ej.culley, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2007 by Ej. Culley [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horton,_Berkshire]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01349HOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-tooled], Medieval [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Stanwell Rd, Horton, Berkshire, SL3 9PA
Site Location: Berkshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B488, 3 km NE of Wraysbury, 5 km S of Leighton Buzzard, just W of Heathrow
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: formerly Buckinghamshire -- Hundred of Stoke
Additional Comments: req por permit sent to parish webmaster Carolyn Wheeler (email of 12 april 2009)//mt
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Horton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ0175/horton/] [accessed 12 November 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. In his entry for the Church of St. Michael, in Horton, Parker (1850) notes: "The font is plain N[orman], tub-shaped." [Parker (ibid.) puts this Horton in the Deanery of Burnham, in the area just southwest of Leighton Buzzard]. In Sheahan (1862), after Parker. A font in the Church of St. Michael the Archangel, Horton, just south of Colnbrook, north of Wraysbury, is described in Gill (1862): "The font, which is probably coeval with the building [i.e., 12th-century, Norman], has been removed from its former situation and is placed at the west end of the nave. It is very large, plain, and cylindrical, and stands on a circular basement, having its basin lined with lead". A Norman font is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) at Horton, in Buckinghamshire. The Victoria County History (Bucks., vol. 3, 1925) notes: "The advowson of Horton Church, mentioned in 1198, was appurtenant to the manor [...] The nave dates from about the middle of the 12th century; a south aisle was added about the end of the same century, but only the arcade opening to it now survives, the aisle having been rebuilt in 1875–6. [...] The font has a 12th-century circular bowl, with a cable moulding round the top; the lower part has apparently been retooled and the base is modern." In his guide to Buckinghamshire Pevsner (1960) notes: "Font. Norman, tub-shaped. At the top, band of twisted rope." Described in the Parish web site [http://www.stmichaels-horton.org/horton/horton-history-building.php]: "The font is 12th century, with a simple rope moulding. It is a large tub (1 metre across) and big enough for a baby to be totally immersed."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 670850 5704893
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.469374, -0.54011
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 28′ 9.74″ N, 0° 32′ 24.4″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [Parish web site http://www.stmichaels-horton.org/horton/horton-history-building.php [accessed 12 April 2009]]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood and metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal scrolls around a central pivot; appears modern
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
- Gyll, Gordon Willoughby James, History of the Parish of Wraysbury, Ankerwicke Priory, and Magna Charta Island; with the history of Norton and the town of Colnbrook, Bucks., London: Henry G. Bohn, 1862, p. 243
- 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.] 54
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960, p. 171-172
- 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. 867