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Image Source: illustration in Lysons (1806-1833)
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: in different patterns or shapes
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Image Source: illustration in Lysons (1806-1833)
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design element - motifs - beaded-tape
Scene Description: forming large semi-circles, garland-like, around the basin sides
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Image Source: illustration in Lysons (1806-1833)
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view of church exterior - south view
![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--------------](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160121009_compressed.png)
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--------------
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ChurchCrawler, 2005
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 8 July 2005 by ChurchCrawler [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/68617] [accessed 20 January 2016]
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view of font - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a 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 font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brentorboxer, 2010
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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view of basin - southwest side
Scene Description: showing thenew lining and the repairs to the upper basin below
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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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2016
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 - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2016
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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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06394MAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1140-1150?
Font Century and Period/Style: 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]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Edmund
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Edmund the Martyr [aka Edmund of East Anglia]
Church Address: 1 Church Close, Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire MK18 1QF
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: altered font: the base is modern -- famous person font: here was baptised Dr. George Bate, physician to king Charles I. Oliver Cromwell and king Charles II
Font Notes:
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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)."
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.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 639130 5764074
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.009851, -0.972805
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 0′ 35.47″ N, 0° 58′ 22.1″ W
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-. 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. 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, vol. I: p. 489
- Maguire, Henry P., "A twelfth century workshop in Northampton", 9, 1 (1970), Gesta, 1970, pp. 11-25; p. 17-19
- Murray, John [the firm], Handbook for travellers in Berks. Bucks and Oxfordshire, including a [...], London: John Murray, 1882, p. 159
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960, p. 197
- 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. 289, 290
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 54