Long Crendon / Craendon / Credendon / Credendone / Creedonia / Creindon / Crendon Long / Crendone / Croyndon / Cryndon / Grandone / Grendon-by-Tame
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 October 2010 by pete-astn [www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/5062751241/]
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human figure - head
Scene Description: damaged
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Image Source: digital photograph 24 July 2022 by Colin Smith
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view of basin - detail
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view of basin
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view of basin - detail
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angel - cherub - 8
Scene Description: below the rim
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design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - 8
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: just below the cherubs
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human figure - head - in a quatrefoil - 8
Scene Description: probably male and female; some bearded, some wearing head-dress, etc.; some had been disfigured, with features hacked off; the spandrels of the
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view of church exterior
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view of font and cover in context
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view of church interior - detail
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view of church interior - detail
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view of church interior - monument
!["Large wall monument in south transept to Sir John Dormer and wife 1626. Recumbent effigies on elaborate double tiered plinth set in shallow coffered arch surmounted by pediment and cartouche, supported on black columns and flanked by oblisks with strapwork decoration in lunette." [source: Historic England Listing NGR: SP6983609060]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1221120006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: "Large wall monument in south transept to Sir John Dormer and wife 1626. Recumbent effigies on elaborate double tiered plinth set in shallow coffered arch surmounted by pediment and cartouche, supported on black columns and flanked by oblisks with strapwork decoration in lunette." [source: Historic England Listing NGR: SP6983609060]
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view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: fragment of a tile?
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view of lower base - detail
Scene Description: one of the lion proromes
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view of font cover
Scene Description: notice the size of the lead lining overlap
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view of font cover
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: large oak (?) leaves between the lions
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animal - mammal - lion - protome - 4
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01366CRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1380?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century / 14th - 16th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the S aisle, just W of the S entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: High Street, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire HP18 9AN
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km NNW of Thame, 13 km SW of Aylesbury on the B4011
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Ixhill [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Ashendon
Additional Comments: painted font (the present font has remains of bluish-paint) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC-church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for [Long] Crendon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6909/long-crendon/] [accessed 3 December 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Parker (19850) reports: "The font is very good P[erpendicular]". In Lipscomb (1831- ): "On the south side is a fine old font, ornamented with couchant lions at the base, and its capacious bason inclosed by square compartments decorated with foliage." Sheahan (1862) notes that the church "was probably built in the 12th or beginning of the 13th century, and is of mixed style of Gothic architecture"; the font, adds Sheahan (ibid.), "which is ancient and large, and lined with lead, is ornamented with couchant lions at the base, and its eight sides are richly decorated with foliage, heads, &c." In Murray (1882). Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period, a noteworthy example. In the RCAHM (1912), with date in the late-4th century. Described in the Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927): "The church of Long Crendon, now dedicated in honour of St. Mary the Virgin, [...] appears to have been originally granted by the second Walter Giffard to St. Faith Longueville, [...] but later resumed and given by his son to the abbey he had founded at Nutley [NB: there may be some confusion in this VCH entry about the first and second Walter Giffard; the first WG, founder of Nutley Abbey, died ca. 1084, whereas his son, WG the second, 1st Earl of Buckingham, died in 1102 -- either way it would mean that a church existed in Long Crendon by 1102] [...] The octagonal font dates from about 1380; the sides of the bowl have quatrefoil panels, and at the angles are angel-heads with outspread wings, which from a rich band round the rim; the base is enriched with foliated panels and lions' heads." In Pevsner (1960): "Font. Octagonal, Perp. Against the foot, four seated lions and large single leaves in relief. Against the bowl, frontal heads in quatrefoils. The rim is supported by demi-figured angels." There are rests of bluish paint on some of the sides of the basin, especially on the background of the humans heads inside the quatrefoils.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Austin and to Colin Smith for their photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 638668 5738011
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.775779, -0.990013
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 46′ 32.8″ N, 0° 59′ 24.05″ 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
Notes: raised ribs around a centre pivot with large floral finial; very ornate; 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
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of the historical monuments in Buckinghamshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1912-, vol. 1: 237
- Lipscomb, George, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, London: J.B. Nichols, 1831-1843, vol. 1: 217
- Murray, John [the firm], Handbook for travellers in Berks. Bucks and Oxfordshire, including a [...], London: John Murray, 1882, p. 151
- 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.] 155
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960, p. 194
- 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. 371