Wing nr. Leighton Buzzard No. 2 / Winge / Witchunge / Witehunge
Image copyright © Ken Goodearl, 2007
Permission received (e-mail of 29 Oct 2007)
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design element - motifs - leaf
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1071102015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ken Goodearl, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Ken Goodearl [http://www.petergoodearl.co.uk/ken/aylesburyfonts/aylesburyfont_pics.htm#aylesbury] [accessed 30 October 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 29 Oct 2007)
design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ken Goodearl, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Ken Goodearl [http://www.petergoodearl.co.uk/ken/aylesburyfonts/aylesburyfont_pics.htm#aylesbury] [accessed 30 October 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 29 Oct 2007)
view of base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ken Goodearl, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Ken Goodearl [http://www.petergoodearl.co.uk/ken/aylesburyfonts/aylesburyfont_pics.htm#aylesbury] [accessed 30 October 2007]
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "A detail view of one of the lunettes (semi-circular cushion-like ornamentations) at the base of the "Aylesbury" font in the South Porch of All Saints, Wing."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rob Farrow, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2014 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4243967] [accessed 22 September 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ken Goodearl, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Ken Goodearl [http://www.petergoodearl.co.uk/ken/aylesburyfonts/aylesburyfont_pics.htm#aylesbury] [accessed 30 October 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 29 Oct 2007)
view of font base
![Source caption: "This is the base of an "Aylesbury" font [...] which presumably once stood in the nave of Wing's All Saints church, but is now to be found in the South Porch. However, this is something of an improvement in its fate, as I believe it was discovered buried in the churchyard some years ago."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1151014047_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "This is the base of an "Aylesbury" font [...] which presumably once stood in the nave of Wing's All Saints church, but is now to be found in the South Porch. However, this is something of an improvement in its fate, as I believe it was discovered buried in the churchyard some years ago."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rob Farrow, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2014 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4243952] [accessed 22 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 01425WIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (base only)
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Vicarage Lane, Wing, Buckinghamshire LU7 0NY
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A418, 5 km W of Leighton Buzzard, 13 km NE of Aylesbury, 20 km S of Milton Keynes
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Cottesloe
Font Location in Church: Reported in the S porch ca. 1928, and again in 1960, 2015,...
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Aylesbury group [base only]
Cognate Fonts: three other Aylesbury font have double-scalloped bases: Aylesbury, Bledlow and Great Kimble
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 this object].
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Wing [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8822/wing/] [accessed 28 August 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it]. A font here is described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as the base of a baptismal font of the Aylesbury group, kept in the porch of this church. Ditto in Pevsner (1960) with date C12. This base has doble scallops on its sides, a characteristic it is shared by only three other fonts of its group: Aylesbury, Bledlow and Great Kimble. The round-to-square base has a thin rope moulding at the neck, and leaf motifs, probably acanthus, that are badly damaged and eroded now. [NB: there is another font, a Perpendicular one, in the same church [cf. Index entry for Wing No. 1]]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.894826, -0.721978
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 53′ 41.38″ N, 0° 43′ 19.12″ W
UTM: 30U 656744 5751793
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Basin Interior Shape: [missing]
Basin Exterior Shape: [missing]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-11-24 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Betjeman, John, Collins Guide to Parish Churches of England and Wales (including The Isle of Man), St.Jame's Place, London: Collins, 1980
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960
Stocker, D.A., "Fons et origo: The Symbolic Death and Resurrection of English Font Stones", I (1997b), Church Archaeology, 1997, pp. 17-25; p. 20ff
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928