Bow Brickhill / Bellebrikhulle / Bolle Briculle / Bolle Briculle / Brichelle / Brichull / Brickhill Bow

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Font image
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view of church interior - nave - looking west

the font at the far end of the nave
Scene Description: the font at the far end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cameraman, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 March 2010 by Cameraman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1812176] [accessed 12 April 20161
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01369BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: 34 Church Road, Bow Brickhill, Milton Keynes MK17 9LF
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3-4 km E of Bletchley and the A5
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Moulsoe [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Newport
Additional Comments: altered font? (the entire present font appears to have been whitewashed) -- disappeared font? (he one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
There are four entries for [Bow] Brickhill [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9034/bow-brickhill/] [accessed 2 February 2016], none of which mention cleric or church in it. Parker (1850) notes the font here as "a tolerable specimen" of the Perpendicular style. Described in Sheahan (1862): "The font is octagonal in form, and on the pedestal supporting it, are four eagles displayed." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The church dedicated in honour of All Saints (fn. 107) is said to have been given by the Chaunceys to Woburn Abbey in 1185. [...] The living fell vacant in 1283 [...] The nave probably dates from the 12th century, but it was so completely remodelled in the 15th century as to obliterate the earlier details. [...] The octagonal font has a panelled bowl, below which are figures of angels with outspread wings. It dates from the 15th century. In one of the panels is a shield charged with two implements, perhaps instruments of the Passion." Described in Pevsner (1960): "Font. Perp., octagonal, with quatrefoil, trefoil and tracery panels". The Parish Church web site [www.bowbrickhill.com/church3.html] adds: "The font dates from the fifteenth century; it has an octagonal bowl, with cusped circular and quatrefoil panels. In one panel is a shield with arms, two tau crosses or mallets. The bowl is supported by figures of angels with outstretched wings. The stem is octagonal with moulded base."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 659721 5763687
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.000834, -0.67322
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 0′ 3″ N, 0° 40′ 23.59″ 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: round, flat and plain, with knob handle; 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
  • 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.] 99
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960, p. 70
  • 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. 499