Dorney / Dornei
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Results: 17 records
view of font and cover - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross, in Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/bucks/churches/dorney.htm] [accessed 2 November 2015]
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view of font and cover - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © St, James the Less, Dorney, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph in the Parish web page [www.stjohnstjamesed.org.uk/page8.html] [accessed 2 November 2015]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken March 2012 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2879048] [accessed 2 November 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mark Percy, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2013 by Mark Percy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3482180] [accessed 2 November 2015]
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view of font - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, 2015
Image Source: photograph taken by Ron Baxter, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1625/] [accessed 2 November 2015]
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view of basin - west side
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Image Source: photograph taken by Ron Baxter, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1625/] [accessed 2 November 2015]
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view of basin - southeast side
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view of basin - southwest side
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view of basin - northwest side
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view of basin - northeast side
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Image Source: photograph taken by Ron Baxter, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/1625/] [accessed 2 November 2015]
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view of basin - east side
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design element - patterns - diaper?
Scene Description: not original; probably re-carved at a later date [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eric Hardy, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 June 2007 by Eric Hardy
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design element - motifs - floral - rose?
Scene Description: not original; probably re-carved at a later date [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eric Hardy, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 June 2007 by Eric Hardy
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symbol - cross - fleuronnée
Scene Description: not original; probably re-carved at a later date [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eric Hardy, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 June 2007 by Eric Hardy
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view of font and cover in context - west side
Scene Description: photographed from beneath the gallery, looking east towards the altar
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eric Hardy, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2007 by Eric Hardy
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view of church interior - west gallery
Scene Description: the font and cover beneath it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eric Hardy, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2007 by Eric Hardy
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view of cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eric Hardy, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 6 June 2007 by Eric Hardy
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09963DOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [altered] [re-carved?], Norman [altered]
Cognate Fonts: The font at Hambleden, in the same county
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James the Less
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, beneath the gallery
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Less [aka James the Lesser, James the Little, James the Minor, James the Younger]
Church Address: Court Lane, Dorney, Buckinghamshire SL4 6QR
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B3026, 5 km NW of Windsor
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Burnham
Additional Comments: altered font: top has been cut down; are the carvings original? -- re-carved?
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Dorney [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU9279/dorney/] [accessed 2 November 2015], but it mentions neither cleric not church in it. The Lysons (1806-1833) report a round baptismal font decorated "with crosses-florées" in this church. Sheahan (1862) writes: "The font is Norman and large, and the compartments are sculptured". Described in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912): "circular bowl, with foliated crosses in diamond-shaped panels, the top cut down, and with an iron band around it, plain circular stem and base, 12th-century." Noted in the Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925): "The font dates from the 12th century and has a circular bowl reduced in height and carved with lozenge-shaped panels, in which are floreated crosses, and a circular stem and base." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a font decorated with diaper work. Described in Betjeman (1958) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the 12th century. Noted in Pevsner (1960): "Font. Tub-shaped, Norman, with ornamental decoration in big motifs." Listed in The National Trust [www.nationaltrust.org.uk/assocs/Bristol/Outings_Summer_2004.htm] as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted and illustrated in the Parish web site [www.stjohnstjamesed.org.uk/page8.html] [accessed 6 December 2010]. Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015): "The font is under the west gallery, a step down from the nave in its own baptistery. Its tub-shaped bowl stands on a coursed stone drum and this on a chamfered base. The upper rim of the bowl has been shaved back and chamfered at some stage, so that the upper part of the relief design is lost. The bowl is lead lined, and there are staples in the rim at N and S, and vertical cracks running down from the rim at E, SW and NW. The bowl is carved with a trellis of 6 lozenges encircling it. The trellis is of triple reeded bands with drilled bosses at each node, and each lozenge-shaped field contains a cross fleury. The shaving of the upper rim has erased the upper parts of each lozenge and the upper terminal of each cross, as well as most of the upper row of triangular fields between the lozenges. The lower row remains, however, and these are all carved in relief with an upright lily. [...] A font similarly carved with motifs in a trellis is found at Green's Norton, Northants."
[NB: are the ornamentations part of a re-carving?]
[NB: are the ornamentations part of a re-carving?]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 661841 5708321
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.50282, -0.668138
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 30′ 10.15″ N, 0° 40′ 5.3″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 10 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 53 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 73 cm*
Basin Total Height: 41 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 106 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2015)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat base with four scroll-ribs joining at the large acorn finial; probably modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Betjeman, John, An American's Guide to English Parish Churches (including the Isle of Man), New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1958, p. 101
- 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.
- Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of the historical monuments in Buckinghamshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1912-, p. 128
- 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
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960, p. 109
- 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. 847
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 85