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design element - motifs - moulding - patterned
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design element - motifs - leaf - acanthus - arcade
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arch heads - intersecting arches
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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design element - patterns - fluted
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01351PIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1190?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Aylesbury group
Cognate Fonts: Aylesbury, Bledlow, Great Kimble, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Parsih Church of St. Mary [redundant]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, by the tower entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: Small church lying in chalk fields below the Chilterns; has 13th-century capitals, 15th-century nave arcades and early 14th-century brasses; Jacobean pulpit. Redundant now
Church Address: Church Road, Pitstone, Buckinghamshire LU7 9HA
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 14 km W of Aylesbury on the B489. near the border with Herts.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Yradley [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Cottesloe
Additional Comments: damaged font / re-cut font? / altered font?
Font Notes:
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There are seven entries for Pitstone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9415/pitstone/] [accessed 20 November 2015], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Parker (1850) and Cox & Harvey (1907) note a baptismal font of the Norman period in this church. Sheahan (1862) writes: "The font is Norman, the base and basin being escalloped with a bold cable moulding between them, and the rim is ornamented with roses." The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "The earliest parts of the present church are the chancel and north chapel, which date from about 1250, but the existence of an earlier church is shown by the font and some carved fragments of 12thcentury date [...] The font, of about 1190, has a circular bowl enriched with flutings, and with a band of ornament round the top; it rests on a circular fluted tapering base surmounted by a cable moulding." Described as a Norman Font of the 12th century in Betjeman (1958) and in The Churches Conservation Trust web site [www.visit-churches.co.uk]. Pevsner (1960) notes: "Font. Late C12, circular, with fluting on stem and bowl as at Aylesbury. Re-cut top frieze." The frieze [which Pevsner notes as 're-cut'] is not like any of the Aylsbury group fonts: it has a zigzar moulding at the upper rim, followed down by an intersecting arcade where the arches end in acanthus leaves, then a fat roll moulding, below which is a fluted pattern all around; the centre ring is a large rope moulding, followed down by a band of fluting on what could be termed the stem; the lower base is modern, and consists of a fat moulding on a square lower volume. The inner basin appears lead-lined, and there is a flat round wooden cover on it. Damage has occurred at the upper rim and the lower base, and is most obvious and extended on the side of the basin.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Goodearl, of [www.petergoodearl.co.uk/ken/aylesburyfonts/aylesburyfont_pics.htm#aylesbury], for his photographs of church and font]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 663035 5744232
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.8251, -0.6342
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 49′ 30.36″ N, 0° 38′ 3.12″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: round-mounted -- chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 105
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 187
- 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.] 86
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960, p. 19, 224
- 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. 726