Taplow / Thapelau / Thapeslau

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Parish web site [www.st-nicolas.org.uk/gallery.htm] [accessed 20 February 2023]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The old church near Taplow Court; demolished 1828".

Image Source: digital image of an old illustration in the Parish web site [www.st-nicolas.org.uk/gallery.htm] [accessed 10 November 2015]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Taeppa's Mound in the old churchyard, Taplow [...] The Anglo-Saxon barrow stands on a hilltop overlooking the Thames, within the area later enclosed as St Nicolas' churchyard. A church which stood nearby was demolished in Victorian times, in connection with the building of Taplow Court. What has come to light more recently is that an earlier - Anglo-Saxon - church once occupied the site [...] So it seems that less than a century after the burial of Taeppa, the pagan site was adopted by early Christians."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2014 by Stefan Czapski [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3814805] [accessed 10 November 2015]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Tomb in old St Nicolas' churchyard, Taplow Court [...] a number of tomb-slabs, and half a dozen or so grander tombs, from the 18th and 19th centuries. The tomb shown here is the grandest of the lot"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2014 by Stefan Czapski [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3816887] [accessed 10 November 2015]

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view of font

Scene Description: "the present font at Taplow is a composite object with only "the bottom slab would be from the old font", the rest dated to 1861]" [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Parish web site [www.st-nicolas.org.uk/gallery.htm] [accessed 20 February 2023]

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view of font and cover in context

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the 12thC font inside the replacement church of the Victorian church

Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web site [www.st-nicolas.org.uk/gallery.htm] [accessed 10 November 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06337TAP

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicolas [in the new church]

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Rectory Road / High Street, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, SL6 0ET, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Buckinghamshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located E of the A4094, 2 km E of Maidenhead

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Burnham

Font Location in Church: [fragments of the basin and base preserved in the church]

Century and Period: 12th century [base only], Medieval [composite]

Church Notes: old church demolished 1828

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Taplow [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU9182/taplow/] [accessed 10 November 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Lysons (1806-1833) write of a square font that "has circular arches on the sides, and stands on a round shaft." Sheahan (1862) reports that the font from Old St. Nicholas' was removed and installed in the new church "built in 1828". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "In 1197 William de Turville and his wife Isabel subinfeudated Taplow to the Prior of Merton [...] Taplow Church was bestowed upon Merton Priory at the same time as the manor", which would indicate a church existed by 1197; the VCH ibid.) further notes that the new brick church of 1828 "was rebuilt in stone in the style of the 14th century [...] The font stands upon a base of Purbeck marble of the 12th century". Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as the fragments that have survived from the basin and base of a baptismal font from the Norman period; they show a shallow blank arcade motif on the basin sides. Pevsner (1960) writes: "Font. The bowl is of the table-top type, of Purbeck marble, with four shallow blank arches on each side." [NB: a recent [19 October 2004] communication from Carol Myers, myers@stnicholascenter.org, noted that the present font at Taplow is a composite object with only "the bottom slab would be from the old font", the rest dated to 1861]. The present font is located at the west end of the north aisle. Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "base only] [source given: RCHM (S), 1912].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.5317, -0.6866

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 31′ 54.12″ N, 0° 41′ 11.76″ W

UTM: 30U 660458 5711492

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble) [base only]

Number of Pieces: [fragments]

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: square and flat, with metal decoration atop; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-05-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960

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

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928