Ashendon / Assedone [Domesday] / Assedune / Aysshyndon / Essendon / Essundon
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: the only decoration on the font
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church exterior - west view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font cover in the foreground, at the west end of the nave
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font and cover beneath the tower arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Davies, 2010
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view of font and cover - east side
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09985ASH
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [aka The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Main Street, Ashendon, Buckinghamshire, HP18 0H -- Tel.: +44 1296 655137
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 11 km N of Thame,15 km W of Aylesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford [formerly Dorchester, Lincoln]
Historical Region: Hundred of Ashendon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [re-cut], Norman [altered]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: if the VCH is right, cf. infra, the church here, given by Walter Giffard to Nutley Abbey, would have existed before Giffard's death in 1084
There are two entries for Ashendon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7014/ashendon/] [accessed 2 December 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Lipscomb (1831- ) notes: "The font is plain and columnar, standing under the western arch on the south side of the nave." Described in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912- ): "Font: circular tapering bowl, of hard limestone, large roll moulding round the bottom, probably 12th-century, re-cut later, round stem and chamfered base. Font cover: hexagonal, with ogee brackets and central pendant, wood, 17th-century." The Victoria County History (Beds., vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The church was given by Walter Giffard, the founder, to Nutley Abbey [NB: Walter Giffard, Lord of Longueville, aka Gautier Giffard I, Gautier l'Ancien [ca. 1010?-ca.1084?]] [...] The church dates from about 1120 [...] The circular font probably dates from the 12th century, but has been retooled at a later period; it has a tapering bowl with a roll at the bottom and a 17th-century wood cover." [NB: apparently the font was for many years half-embedded into a plaster-covered column in the middle of the church -obviously not the original position- but was later moved to its present position]. Pevsner (1960) does not mention the font but writes of a "font cover, Jacobean, plain". Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015): "This is a form of font common in Buckinghamshire, with a tub or cup-shaped bowl on a thick roll supported by a stem. Other examples are at Haddenham, Newton Longville, Wingrave and Bierton, and the Aylesbury group are an elaboration of the basic design."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.821985,
-0.978533
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 49′ 19.15″ N,
0° 58′ 42.72″ W
UTM: 30U 639318 5743171
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 12.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 51 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 76 cm*
Basin Total Height: 40 cm
Height of Central Column: 24 cm* [stem w/o ring]
Font Height (less Plinth): 75 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 95 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2015)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century? / Jacobean?
Material:
wood,
oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-01-11 00:00:00. 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. Accessed: 2012-01-11 00:00:00. 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-
Lipscomb, George, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, London: J.B. Nichols, 1831-1843
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960
