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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - pinnacled - crocketed - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: B&W photograph by Adams' Studios Ltd. London, in Keyser (1919)

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design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: B&W photograph by Adams' Studios Ltd. London, in Keyser (1919)

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: B&W photograph by Adams' Studios Ltd. London, in Keyser (1919)

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view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: B&W photograph by Adams' Studios Ltd. London, in Keyser (1919)

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: B&W photograph by Adams' Studios Ltd. London, in Keyser (1919)

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view of font and cover

Image Source: B&W photograph by Adams' Studios Ltd. London, in Keyser (1919)

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07400SHO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Shottesbrooke Park, Berkshire, SL6 3SW

Country Name: England

Location: Berkshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the B3024, near White Waltham, SW of Maidenhead

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Beynhurst

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Date: ca. 1337?

Century and Period: 14th century (mid?), Decorated

Cognate Fonts: somewhat similar to the font at Bloxham, in Oxfordshire -- cf. FontNotes

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Shottesbrooke [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SU8477/shottesbrook/] [accessed 19 March 2015]; it mentions a church in it. A font here is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. Noted and illustrated in Keyser (1919): "The font [...] is very good decorated work, octagonal, with trefoiled canopies within ogee-headed arches with crocketing and richly carved finials on each face, and graduated buttresses capped by crocketed pinnacles on each angle. There is a similar font at Hurley, and modern copies of it at Waltham St. Lawrence, and Cumnor, Berks." The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 3, 1924) notes: "A church at Shottesbrook is mentioned in the Domesday Survey. [...] Though an earlier church had existed here, the present building dates from about 1337 [...] The original 14th-century font remains. It is octagonal and has small crocketed and pinnacled buttresses at the angles, while the sides are panelled with trefoiled ogee-headed panels having crocketed labels surmounted by carved finials. Round the foot runs a moulded base which is continued round the angle buttresses." The wooden cover is octagonal and flat; appears Victorian.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.486607, -0.790169

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 29′ 11.78″ N, 0° 47′ 24.61″ W

UTM: 30U 653427 5706255

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: Victorian?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-11-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Keyser, Charles E., "Notes on the churches of Ruscombe, Shottesbrooke, Waltham St. Lawrence and Hurst", 25, No.1 (July 1919), Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archaeological Journal, 1919, pp. 3-18; r["References"]