Cheddington / Cetedene / Cetedone / Cetendone [Domesday] / Chetindon / Chetingdon

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design element - motifs - stop - 4
view of church exterior - south view
view of church interior - chancel and east end
INFORMATION
FontID: 01363CHE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: Cheddington, Buckinghamshire LU7 0SF
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A488, 8 km S of Leighton Buzzard, 12-13 km WNW of Aylesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Cottesloe [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, against a pier in the nave
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are seven entries for Cheddington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9217/cheddington/] [accessed 16 November 2015], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Parker (1850) writes: "The font is octagonal of D[ecorated] character." Ditto in Sheahan (1862), who mentions "a neat modern cover". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "The chancel and nave preserve the plan of a 12th-century church. A number of fragments of carved and moulded stones of that period have been preserved and are built into the walls. The church was largely altered in the 15th century, all the remaining detail being of that date with the exception of the chancel arch and the inner label of the east window, which was probably re-used from a 14th-century window. [...] The font, probably of the 15th century, is octagonal, and has a stem, with shaped stops, on a square base." The modern cover noted in Sheahan [cf. supra] is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle. The font is located against a pier in the nave.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.8529,
-0.6629
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 51′ 10.44″ N,
0° 39′ 46.44″ W
UTM: 30U 660958 5747260
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material:
wood,
oak
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-04-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
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
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