Denham / Daneham / Deneham
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 February 2013 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3340398] [accessed 11 November 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 October 2001 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/333153] [accessed 11 November 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05933DEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [restored], Early English [altered]
Cognate Fonts: Sutton, Beccles, Creed and many others all over England
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mark / St. Mary
Church Address: Village Road, Denham Village, Buckinghamshire, UB9 5BH
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just NW of Uxbridge, near junction #1 of the M40 and the M25
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Stoke
Additional Comments: altered font: restored (some pillars of the base replaced [cf. FontNotes]) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Denham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TQ0386/denham/] [accessed 11 November 2015], but it mentions neither cleric not church in it. Gough (1792) notes an early baptismal font on "angular pillars". Sheahan (1862) notes that the church is of Perpendicular character "but the edifice has been modernised [...] The font is ancient." Described in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912): "Font: of Purbeck marble, octagonal, tapering bowl, chamfered at the bottom, on each side two slightly recessed panels with pointed heads, circular stem surrounded by eight small shafts, early 13th-century, base and two of the shafts modern." The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "There was a church here in the 12th century, [...] but the present chancel is not earlier than the beginning of the 14th century, while the nave was rebuilt about the middle of the 15th century, when the aisles and tower were added [...] The font dates from the early 13th century; it has an octagonal tapering bowl of Purbeck marble, on each side of which are two panels. The bowl rests on a round central stem and eight small shafts, two of which have been renewed." Tyrrell-Green (1928) writes: "The octagonal form persisted in fonts of the same class in the thirteenth century, with the change that in the Early English style pointed arches take the place of rounded ones in the shallow incised arcading". Noted in Pevsner (1960). Listed in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, "two of the subsidiary shafts and the base are modern".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 673493 5716453
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.572411, -0.496408
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 34′ 20.68″ N, 0° 29′ 47.07″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
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.
- Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 190
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of the historical monuments in Buckinghamshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1912-, p. 116
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 76
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960, p. 19, 103
- 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. 859
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 29, 88 and fig. 59