Totternhoe / Tattnall / Totenehou / Tottenhoe / Tottnehow
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rob Farrow, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 June 2006 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/193748] [accessed 23 September 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rob Farrow, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 June 2006 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/193383] [accessed 23 September 2015]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Font, medieval and discarded in late 1800s, but re-instated 1930-1"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rex Harris, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 January 2015 by Rex Harris [www.flickr.com/photos/sheepdog_rex/16393170676] [accessed 23 September 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05957TOT
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles of Provence
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: The Ride, Totternhoe, Central Bedfordshire LU6 1RE
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A5, 3 km W of Dunstable, 10 km E of Leighton Buzzard
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Manshead
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [reported in the churchyard between 1912 and 1928]
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
There are two entries for Totternhoe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9921/totternhoe/] [accessed 23 September 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Bedfordshire, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The church of Totternhoe was granted to Dunstable Priory by Walter de Wahull [...] (c. 1160–90) [...] The early history of the church is entirely destroyed by the late mediaeval alterations. [...] At the west end of the north aisle is a modern font. The old 15th-century font is in the churchyard." Tyrrell-Green (1928) reported that the font was still located unused in the churchyard at his time, and described the font as one in a very large group of baptismal fonts of the 14th or 15th century that are plain octagonal with straightsided basins. The font appears to have been re-instated into the church in the early 1930s, and is now [January 2015] entirely covered in whitewash. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and two handles; modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.8778,
-0.5656
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 52′ 40.08″ N,
0° 33′ 56.16″ W
UTM: 30U 667566 5750248
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and two handles; modern
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-10-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
