Meppershall / Maperdeshale / Mepartyshall / Mepershall / Mepertesale / Meperteshale / Meppersal / Mepshall
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UB01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05473MEP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin [Our Lady's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Road, Meppershall, Bedfordshire SG17 5NA
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SW of Shefford, 10 km W of Biggleswade, 19 km ESE of Bedford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Clifton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Cognate Fonts: Another dodecagonal font at Warden, also in Bedfordshire; another such in Patrington in Yorkshire
Font Notes:
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Noted in Lysons (1806-1833), in Paley (1844) [after Lysons] and in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font with a dodecagonal basin. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The church of Meppershall was given to the priory of Lenton by Robert son of William de Meppershall, and the gift was confirmed by Henry II [1154-1189] [...] The tower and transepts are the oldest part of the church, and belong apparently to the first quarter of the twelfth century [...] The font, at the west end of the aisle, is of fifteenthcentury date, and only unusual in being twelve-sided in form." [NB: we have no information on the medieval font of this church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.009993, -0.347939
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 0′ 35.98″ N, 0° 20′ 52.58″ W
UTM: 30U 682009 5765471
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: dodecagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: dodecagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat platform with raised scroll ribs; finial
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-05-09 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
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
Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844