North Marston / Marskton / Marston North / Merstone / Normerstone / Northmerstone
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view of font and cover - northwest side
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2013 by Timothy Marlow
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view of font - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 1 May 2013 by Timothy Marlow
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view of font and cover in context - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2013 by Timothy Marlow
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: engraving in Lipscomb (1831- )
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view of font and cover - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buckinghamshire County Council, 2009
Image Source: B&W photograph [ca. 1944?]; [ref. no.: 'phNorth Marston22'] [http://apps.buckscc.gov.uk/eforms/photolibrary/photoDetail.aspx?id=16669] [accessed 11 April 2009]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction – Fair Dealing
design element - motifs - floral or foliage - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 5
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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 1 May 2013 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: at top and bottom of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 1 May 2013 by Timothy Marlow
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symbol - shield - coat of arms - unidentified - in a quatrefoil - in a circle
Scene Description: this one on the east side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buckinghamshire County Council, 2009
Image Source: B&W photograph [ca. 1944?]; [ref. no.: 'phNorth Marston22'] [http://apps.buckscc.gov.uk/eforms/photolibrary/photoDetail.aspx?id=16669] [accessed 11 April 2009]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction – Fair Dealing
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 February 2008 by Ryan Noble [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Church_Pic.JPG] [accessed 15 February 2015]
Copyright Instructions: Released by its author into the public domain
view of font and cover in context - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2637470] [accessed 15 February 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
angel - 5
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Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 1 May 2013 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timothy Marlow, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 1 May 2013 by Timothy Marlow
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (letter of 26 October 2013)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 01367MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Late Decorated? / Early Perpendicular?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary [aka St. Mary's]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, beneath the tower
Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Notes: This church is associated with John Schorne, a rector in late 13th and early 14th centuries who performed cures for gout.
Church Address: Church Street, North Marston, Buckinghamshire, MK18 3PH
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A413, 6 km SW of Winslow, 13 km NNW of Aylesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Waddesdon [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Ashendon
Additional Comments: altered font? (the present basin appears to have been totally re-carved or re-tooled)
Font Notes:
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There are five entries for [North] Marston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP7722/north-marston/] [accessed 15 February 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Lysons (1806-1833) reports an octagonal baptismal font decorated with roses in this church. Described and illustrated in Lipscomb (1831- ): "The Font in the N W angle of the nave is large and octagonal: its compartments sculptured with four vine-leaves, having their tendrils or stalks intertwined in the centre: a rose with fasces: a shield charged with three chalices or covered cups, perhaps the arms of Boteler: two clubs raguled, in saltire, a cognizance of the Nevilles. The bason is supported by a pedestal, to which are attached four shields borne by angels." In Parker (1850): "The font is D[ecorated], the bowl supported by angels springing from the shaft" [Parker (ibid.) refers to an engraving of this font is Lipscomb (i, 344-347)]. Sheahan (1862) notes: "The panels of the large octagonal font are sculptured with vine leaves, roses, foliage, &c. The basin is lined with lead, and supported by a pedestal, to which are attached four shields borne by angels." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period, a noteworthy example. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The 15th-century font has an octagonal panelled bowl, three of the panels containing shields much defaced, and the other five foliated ornament; on the stem are five angels." These five angels are very uncharacteristic as they are quite flat on account of their wings, and large, arranged around the underbowl, five that do not correspond to the otherwise octagonal design of the font.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 646204 5751568
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.89567, -0.875133
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 53′ 44.41″ N, 0° 52′ 30.48″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal open-work pyramid topped with floral cross finial
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
- Lipscomb, George, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, London: J.B. Nichols, 1831-1843, vol. 1: 346
- Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822, vol. I: p. 489
- 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.] 162
- 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. 406