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angel - cherub - 8

Scene Description: below the rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 October 2010 by pete-astn [www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/5062751241/]

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animal - mammal - lion - protome - 4

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design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled - 8

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: large oak (?) leaves between the lions

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: just below the cherubs

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human figure - head

Scene Description: damaged

Image Source: digital photograph 24 July 2022 by Colin Smith

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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 basin

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 - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 24 July 2022 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph 24 July 2022 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: fragment of a tile?

Image Source: digital photograph 24 July 2022 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 24 July 2022 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 24 July 2022 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - monument

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]

Image Source: digital photograph 24 July 2022 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph 24 July 2022 by Colin Smith

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view of font cover

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view of font cover

Scene Description: notice the size of the lead lining overlap

Image Source: digital photograph 24 July 2022 by Colin Smith

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view of lower base - detail

Scene Description: one of the lion proromes

Image Source: digital photograph 24 July 2022 by Colin Smith

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01366CRE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: High Street, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire HP18 9AN

Country Name: England

Location: Buckinghamshire, South East

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

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the S aisle, just W of the S entrance

Date: ca. 1380?

Century and Period: 14th century / 14th - 16th century, Decorated? / Perpendicular?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Austin and to Colin Smith for their photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.775779, -0.990013

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 46′ 32.8″ N, 0° 59′ 24.05″ W

UTM: 30U 638668 5738011

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-. Accessed: 2009-04-11 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of the historical monuments in Buckinghamshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1912-

Lipscomb, George, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, London: J.B. Nichols, 1831-1843

Murray, John [the firm], Handbook for travellers in Berks. Bucks and Oxfordshire, including a [...], London: John Murray, 1882

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960

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