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design element - motifs - beaded-tape

Scene Description: forming large semi-circles, garland-like, around the basin sides

Image Source: illustration in Lysons (1806-1833)

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: in different patterns or shapes

Image Source: illustration in Lysons (1806-1833)

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view of basin - east side

Image Source: photograph taken by Ron Baxter, in the CRSBI (2016) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/3144/] [accessed 20 January 2016]

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view of basin - northwest side

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view of basin - southwest side

Scene Description: showing thenew lining and the repairs to the upper basin below

Image Source: photograph taken by Ron Baxter, in the CRSBI (2016) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/3144/] [accessed 20 January 2016]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: EXT S digital photograph taken 8 July 2005 by ChurchCrawler [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/68617] [accessed 20 January 2016] FONT E SIDE photograph taken by Ron Baxter, in the CRSBI (2016) [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/3144/] [accessed 20 January 2016] NO PERMIT FONT basin sides E, SW, NW -------------idem--------------

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view of font

Image Source: illustration in Lysons (1806-1833)

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view of font - east side

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Brentorboxer in 2010 [http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/42115aec-8746-4b17-b8e8-709cbba5b488.JPG]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06394MAI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Edmund

Church Patron Saints: St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]

Church Location: 1 Church Close, Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire MK18 1QF

Country Name: England

Location: Buckinghamshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the A413, 2 km NE of Buckingham (now its suburb), 15 km WSW of Milton Keynes

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Stotfold [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Buckingham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1140-1150?

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Workshop from St Peter's, Northampton

Cognate Fonts: fonts at Paulerspury, Dodford, Tiffield and Weedon Lois [cf. also font at Leckhampstead]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library for access to the copy of Lysons’ Magna Britannia, and to Jim Ingram, of Preservation Services, Robarts Library, for the digital imaging of Lysons’ illustrations.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for [Maids] Moreton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7035/maids-moreton/] [accessed 20 January 2015], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. A font here is noted and illustrated in Lysons (1806-1833). Described in Sheahan (1862) with mention of its illustration in Lysons: "The font is large and consists of a circular basin, with foliage, escalops, and fillets round the brim, supported by an octagonal shaft, on a grade of the same stone with which the church is built." Noted in Murray (1882). The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The present church was entirely rebuilt about 1450 [...] The only remains from the former church are the late 12thcentury font and some 12th-century moulded stones, re-used in the rear arches of the windows of the north porch [...] The font has a circular bowl of the late 12th century, with a band of acanthus and pellet ornament, and stands on a modern base." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as an early baptismal font with high-relief ornamentation. Noted in Pevsner (1960): "Font. Circular, Norman, with one band of symmetrical leaf patterns." Maguire (1970) includes this font in a group the decoration of which appear to be related to that on a fragment from St Andrew's Priory. The CRSBI (2016) notes this as a font "of the lively workshop from St Peter's, Northampton, active in the 1140s and '50s. Other fonts by these sculptors are found in the county at Green's Norton, Paulerspury, Dodford, Tiffield and Weedon Lois, and nearby at Maids' Moreton (Bucks)."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.009851, -0.972805

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 0′ 35.47″ N, 0° 58′ 22.1″ W

UTM: 30U 639130 5764074

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined [modern]

Rim Thickness: 11.5 cm [calculated]

Diameter (inside rim): 50 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 73 cm*

Basin Total Height: 34 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2016)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-03-29 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2006-10-23 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

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

Maguire, Henry P., "A twelfth century workshop in Northampton", 9, 1 (1970), Gesta, 1970, pp. 11-25; r["References"]

Murray, John [the firm], Handbook for travellers in Berks. Bucks and Oxfordshire, including a [...], London: John Murray, 1882

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