Ruislip / Rislepe / Ruislip in Hillingdon

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: on the top spandrels [not visible in this image]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bob Speel, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph by Bob Speel [http://www.speel.me.uk/chlondon/ruislipch.htm] [accessed 19 February 2023]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - 5

Scene Description: forming the capitals for the five pillars of the base

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 October 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1688469] [accessed 10 June 2019]

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view of church exterior - northeast view - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Russell Trebor, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2006 by Russell Trebor [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/306559] [accessed 10 June 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2015 by Edwardx [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Martin's_Church,_Ruislip,_2015_02.jpg] [accessed 10 June 2019]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the old font by the west entranceway -- notice the modern parts: the four outer colonnettes and their bases, the plinth and the wooden cover

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view of stoup

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 October 2003 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1688466] [accessed 10 June 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06984RUI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin of Tours
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Eastcote Rd, Ruislip HA4 8DG, UK -- Tel.: +44 1895 625456
Country Name: England
Location: Greater London, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (SE) the A4180-B466 crossroads, E of the Colne Valley Regional Park, 7-8 km W of Harrow
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of London
Historical Region: Hundred of Elthorne -- formerly Middlesex
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
There is an entry for Ruislip [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ0986/ruislip/] [accessed 10 June 2019]; it mentions a priest and "0.5 church lands", but not a church itself in it, though there must have been one there. Cox & Harvey (1907) list a baptismal font of the Early English period here. Pevsner (1951), however: "Font. C12, flat square bowl with foliage design in the spandrels of the top." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Middlesex, vol. 4, 1971) notes: "There was a priest at Ruislip in 1086, [...] and a church is referred to about 1190. [...] The parish church was dedicated to ST. MARTIN before 1250. [...] The present building, at the corner of Eastcote Road and Ruislip High Street, dates in part from the 13th century, with 15th- and 16th-century additions. [...] The Purbeck marble font dates from the 12th century" [the VCH entry has footnote with reference to the entry in the inventory of the Commission on Historical Monuments (Middlesex, vol. 4, p. 106 and pl. 10)]. The entry for this church in Historic England [List Entry Number: 1285697] notes: "The C12 font is the earliest surviving feature, but a priest in the Domesday book indicates the existence of the church here in the C11 [...] Late C12 Purbeck marble font, with a square chamfered bowl supported on a central and 4 corner shafts, the latter renewed." The font appears to have the original broad shaft and the original basin, but the four outer colonnettes of the base are modern replacements; also modern are the lower base, the plinth and the wooden cover. Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with foliated top spandrels; subsidiary shafts and base are modern" [source given: RCHM, 1937: pl. 10].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.576667, -0.426111
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 34′ 36″ N, 0° 25′ 34″ W
UTM: 30U 678347 5717095

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2007-03-28 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Middlesex, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1951