Ellesborough / Eselburgh / Eselberg / Esenberga / Esenberge / Heselberge / Heselborne
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2016 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil
Scene Description: seen here in the centre
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2016 by Colin Smith
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design element - patterns - tracery - varied
Scene Description: various tracery patterns, including window tracery, on the sides of the basin and underbowl
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design element - motifs - hexafoil
Scene Description: seen here on the left side
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bikeboy, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 November 2014 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4231359] [accessed 25 September 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bikeboy, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 November 2014 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4231361] [accessed 25 September 2015]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 December 2011 by Peter [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2744768] [accessed 25 September 2015]
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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery - trefoiled
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2016 by Colin Smith
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2016 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 10 November 2016)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01365ELL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, towards the S aisle arcade
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: Church Hill, Ellesborough, Buckinghamshire, HP17 0XG
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km from Wendover, 8 km S of Aylesbury on B4010
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Aylesbury
Additional Comments: altered font (base and lower base are modern) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC (?) church here)
Font Notes:
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There are three entries for Ellesborough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8306/ellesborough/] [accessed 11 November 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Rickman (1850) writes: "The font is D[ecorated], the sides ornamented with sunk panels, and the rim with quatrefoils." Sheahan (1862) notes that the old church "was repaired in 1852", and describes the font: "The font is Decorated; the sides ornamented with panels, and the rim with quatrefoils; it is lined with lead." In Murray (1882). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy font of the Decorated period. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "Towards the close of the reign of Henry II [ca. 1189?] Gervase Paganell, then lord of Dudley honour, granted to the priory of Sandwell, in Staffordshire, as much of the church of Ellesborough as appertained to his honour. [...] The whole [present church] building seems to be of 15th-century date, with modern additions and repairs [...] The font has an octagonal 14th-century bowl upon a modern base and stem. The bowl is moulded and of ogee profile, its faces being panelled with flowing tracery in relief." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a baptismal font with a curved bowl. Not mentioned in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912). The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid with panelled sides and a double crown-like crenellated moulding; appears modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 652523 5735751
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.751865, -0.790339
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 45′ 6.71″ N, 0° 47′ 25.22″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal pyramid decorated with crenellation, foliage, panelling; Latin cross finial in metal; 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
- Murray, John [the firm], Handbook for travellers in Berks. Bucks and Oxfordshire, including a [...], London: John Murray, 1882, p. 134
- 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. 128
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 30