Roxton / Rekesduna / Rochesdone / Rochestone / Rokesdon / Ructona
Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2009
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the top and bottom of the colonnettes of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of basin - interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bikeboy, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2015 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4621362] [accessed 15 September 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2012 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3054741] [accessed 15 September 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking southeast
Scene Description: the font by the pillar
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 April 2009 by Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2008
Image Source: Digital photograph from Colin Hinson [www.yorkshireCDbooks.com]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: on the right side of the pillar
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2012 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3055950] [accessed 15 September 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 08148ROX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Church Location: Roxton, Bedfordshire
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located on the A428, ENE of Bedford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Great Barford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, against one of the pillars
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for his photographs of this font.
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Roxton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL1554/roxton/] [accessed 15 September 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912): "The south arcade of the nave, of the early part of the 14th century, is the earliest piece of detail in the church, but the north wall of the nave is probably older. [...] The font is of the 14th century and has an octagonal bowl on a square chamfered shaft round which are four roughly octagonal detached columns with capitals and bases." The inner basin is lead lined; plain quadrangular plinth with 'priest's stone'.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.175819, -0.315273
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 10′ 32.95″ N, 0° 18′ 54.98″ W
UTM: 30U 683568 5783992
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-04-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.