Dinton nr. Aylesbury / Daninton / Danintone / Danitone / Ditton / Donyngton / Dunigton / Dynton

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design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled

Scene Description: inside the fulted pattern

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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design element - patterns - fluted

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view of church exterior - northwest view

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: ca. 1140?

Image Source: B&W photograph in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912)

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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum - detail

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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum - detail

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01370DIT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Upton Road, Dinton, Buckinghamshire, HP17 8UG

Country Name: England

Location: Buckinghamshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A418, 7 km WSW of Aylesbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Stone

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century [re-cut in the 14th century?], Medieval [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Goodearl, of [http://www.petergoodearl.co.uk/ken/aylesburyfonts/aylesburyfont_pics.htm#aylesbury] for his photographs of church and font]

Church Notes: very nice Norman [ca. 1140? RCAHM] tympanum over the south door, with Latin inscription: Praemia pro meritis si qis despet habenda Audiat hic preepta sibique sit retinenda [If anyone despairs of having rewards for his merits Let this man hear the advice and let it be retained by him] [source not recorded] another version of the inscription in the RCAHM (Bucks, 1912)

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There is an entry for this Dinton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7711/dinton/] [accessed 24 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lysons (1806-1833) note a round baptismal font "enriched with quatrefoils" here. In Rickman (1850): "The font is early D[ecorated], cup-shaped." Noted in Sheahan (1862): "The font is of Haddenham stone, circular, of Early Decorated design, and has a pyramidal canopy of wood." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period, a noteworthy example [NB: we found no 'Ditton' located in Bucks]. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The church of Dinton was granted by Agnes de Munchesney to the convent of Godstow, Oxfordshire, in the reign of Henry II [i.e., 1154-1189] [...] The church seems to have been almost entirely rebuilt in the 13th century, but the walling above the south arcade is probably older than the arcade, and at the east end a shallow pilaster buttress shows in the east wall of the south aisle, which looks like 12th-century work. The south doorway is also of this date, and was doubtless removed to its present position from the wall of an aisleless nave. [...] The font has a large cup-shaped bowl on a wide circular moulded base, and much resembles in outline a type of late 12th-century font common in the neighbourhood. The base appears to be of that date, but the details of the bowl look like 14th-century work, and it is possible that it is in reality a 12th-century font recut. It has a scroll moulding on the lip, and below it a band of quatrefoiled circles, the lower part of the bowl being fluted, with trefoiled ogee heads to the flutes." The RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912) notes: "probably 14th-century, moulded base possibly earlier date, much scraped". Pevsner (1960) writes: "Font. Cup-shaped. The fluted lower part of the bowl could be Norman, the upper, with arch-heads and quatrefoils C14 or C15." [NB: was the basin re-carved at some point?]. Wooden cover, round and flat, with very low ribs on top and know handle; modern.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 645081 5739052

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-09-24 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-

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

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