Princes Risborough / Earls Rysebergh / Magna Risberge / Prince's Risborough / Princes Risburgh / Riseberge
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: roses?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter J.StB.Green, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 November 2009 by Peter J.StB.Green [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Princes_Risborough_Church_interior_towards_chancel.jpg] [accessed 24 September 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01371PRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary [aka Our Lady's]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin [original dedication was St. Mary the Virgin & St. John the Baptist]
Church Notes: PR abbey founded 1154-1164, dedicated to St. Mary and St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Church Street, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, HP27 9AN
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A4010, 12 km NW of Hygh Wycombe, 14 km S of Aylesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Risborough
Additional Comments: VCH (1908) reports only a modern font here (did the 15thC font get replaced and discarded?) -- disappeared font? (the one from the original abbey church here ca.1154-1164)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for [Princes] Risborough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8003/princes-risborough/] [accessed 24 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lysons (1806-1833) note an octagonal baptismal font decorated "with heads and roses". In Parker (1850) as octagonal and Perpendicular. Sheahan (1862) describes the font in the same terms as Lysons. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Buckinghsm, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The church of Princes Risborough was granted by Walter Giffard to Notley Abbey [...] at its foundation [i.e., 1154-1164], with the tithes of his demesne lands there. A vicarage, however, was not ordained. [...] Up to the first quarter of the 13th century the church consisted of a chancel and an aisleless nave of the same width as at present, but some 10 ft. shorter. About 1220 north and south aisles were added, and about 1300 the nave and aisles were lengthened by one bay, a tower being probably begun at the same time. A little later, in the 14th century, the chancel was rebuilt, and the clearstory was a 15th-century addition. In modern times the church has been drastically restored [...] The font is modern, with a plain octagonal bowl." Not in Pevsner (1960).
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 649535 5732599
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.724352, -0.834942
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 43′ 27.67″ N, 0° 50′ 5.79″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
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
- 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.] 198
- 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. 193