Slapton nr. Leighton Buzzard / Slapetone

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Font image
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rob Farrow, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 May 2006 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/164411] [accessed 23 November 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01359SLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Early English? / Decorated?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Cross
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Cross
Church Address: Tornay Court, Slapton, Buckinghamshire LU7 9BX
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the E banks of the Grand Union Canal, off the A4146, 6 km SE of Leighton Buzzard
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Yardley [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Cottesloe
Additional Comments: altered font? (the moulded base of the present font)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for this Slapton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9320/slapton/] [accessed 23 November 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Parker (1850) and Cox & Harvey (1907) mention a baptismal font of the Early English period in this church. Described in Sheahan (1862): "The font is circular and plain, raised on a plain round pillar and base." The entry in Kelly's Directory of 1883 states: "the font is 600 years old". Noted in the Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925): "The church of Slapton, assessed at £12 in 1291, (fn. 37) was in existence before that time, as a rector was presented to it in 1223. [...] The present church dates from the late 13th or early 14th century […] The font, probably of the 14th century, has a circular stone bowl moulded on the lower edge and a circular stem." The benefice web site [www.ipschurches.co.uk/about.aspx] [accessed 16 March 2009] reports a font probably of the 13th century in this church. A painting of the font at Slapton in the J.L. Carr Collection at the Northamptonshire Libraries and Information Service can be seen at [http://www.vads.ac.uk] [NB: the font in this painting is closer to the description of the Font at Slapton, Bucks., than to the one at Slapton, Nhants. The source, though based in Nhants., does not mention the county or the name of the church].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 662330 5749989
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.877023, -0.641712
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 52′ 37.28″ N, 0° 38′ 30.16″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

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
  • 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.] 87
  • 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. 743