Radclive / Radclive-cum-Chakmore / Radcliffe / Radeclive / Radeclyve / Ratliff
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. John the Evangelist, Radclive. A lovely small church, its oldest parts dating from the C12th, though the tower is probably 100 years younger. It is at the end of a no-through-road."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rob Farrow, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 February 2007 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/348023] [accessed 21 January 2016]
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view of church exterior - south porch
Scene Description: Source caption: "Porch, St. John the Evangelist, Radclive. Two old pews line the porch"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rob Farrow, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 February 2007 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/348945] [accessed 21 January 2016]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Templeman, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 February 2011 by Roger Templeman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2274528] [accessed 21 January 2016]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Image Source: photograph taken by Ron Baxter, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/3141/] [accessed 21 January 2016]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Radclive-cum-Chackmore Parish Council, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph in the Radclive-cum-Chackmore Parish Council
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01358RAD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist
Church Location: Radclive-cum-Chakmore, Buckingham MK18 4AB
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A421, 2 km W of Buckingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Stotfold [inDomesday] -- Hundred of Buckingham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of the nave, S side
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Church Notes: church of the Transitional period (1150-1200); restored 1903
There is an entry for Radclive [variant spelling] in he Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6733/radclive/] [accessed 21 January 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862) writes: "The font is very plain, and hardly removed from Norman: it measures seven feet nine inches in circumference at the top. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The earliest details in the present fabric are the reset jambs of the chancel arch and the south doorway of the nave, both work of c. 1200. [...] The font is contemporary with the earliest detail in the church [i.e., ca. 1200]; it is of tub shape with a simply moulded base and stands on a square plinth." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2016) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period: "W of the nave doorway, towards the S of the nave, a plain tub font on a low cushion base with fat roll necking, and a square step. The bowl has an extensive inserted repair at the W and a loss perhaps corresponding to staple removal on the W side of the rim. It has a lead lining turned over the rim." The font consists of a plain round lead-lined tub-shaped basin raised on a round-to-square squat base and a square plinth. The wooden cover consists of a flat and round platform on which is raised a four-rib finial; the cover appears modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.99962,
-1.017176
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 59′ 58.63″ N,
1° 1′ 1.84″ W
UTM: 30U 636117 5762852
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 8 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm**
Diameter (includes rim): 75.2 cm* / 75 cm**
Basin Total Height: 38 cm** [59 cm** including the cushion]
Font Height (less Plinth): 74 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Sheahan (1862) [in ft./in] / ** CRSBI (2016)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-03-29 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2016-01-21 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
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
