Waddesdon / Votesdon / Votesdone / Woddesdon
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped
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symbol - cross - saltire - in a quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil
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symbol - shield - blank - in a hexafoil
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 April 2015 by Andrewrabbott [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Michael_and_All_Angels'_Church,_Waddesdon.JPG] [accessed 6 January 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the moulded part of the pedestal base appears modern or re-tooled
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01368WAD
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: High Street A41, Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire, HP18 0JQ, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1296 655069
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A41, 8-10 km W of Aylesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Waddesdon [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Ashendon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1400?
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century [re-tooled?], Late Decorated? / Perpendicular? [altered?]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
There is an entry for Waddesdon [variant spelling] int the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7417/waddesdon/] [accessed 6 January 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lipscomb (1831- ) writes: "The font, which is large and ancient, with compartments sculptured with quatrefoils, &c., rests on a pillar in the second arch on the north side." Described in Parker (1850): "The font is D[ecorated], octagonal, panelled, with shields, &c." Sheahan (1862) adds that it is "large and ancient, with compartments sculptured with quatrefoils, &c." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The three middle columns of the south arcade of the nave, and the west respond, which are of the late 12th century, are the earliest details in the building [...] The octagonal font is of c. 1400; the sides have quatrefoil panels with shields." Pevsner (1960) has: "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with quatrefoil panels." [NB: the font appears to have been re-tooled, not clear how much of the tracery on the basin sides is original; the stem of the base might be a modern replacement]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.84771,
-0.927878
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 50′ 51.76″ N,
0° 55′ 40.36″ W
UTM: 30U 642727 5746130
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, plain and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-04-11 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Lipscomb, George, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, London: J.B. Nichols, 1831-1843
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
