Clifton Reynes / Clifton / Clifton next Oineye / Cliftone / Clistone

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B01: Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child

Scene Description: on the north side of the basin [cf. FontNotes] [seen here on the right side of the basin

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 19 December 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3265609] [accessed 10 September 2015]

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B02: Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria

Scene Description: [seen here on the centre side of the basin]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 19 December 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3265609] [accessed 10 September 2015]

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B03: Apostle or saint - St. Michael

Scene Description: on the east side of the basin -- [seen here on the left side of the basin]

B04: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter

B05: God - Trinity

Scene Description: on the south side of the basin [cf. FontNotes]

B06: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Paul

B07: Apostle or saint - St. Barbara?

Scene Description: holding a tower? Or, St. Mary Magdalen with her vial of ointment? [cf. FontNotes]

B08: Apostle or saint - St. Margaret of Antioch

design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 19 December 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3265609] [accessed 10 September 2015]

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 December 2012 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3265605] [accessed 10 September 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10312CLI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Lane, Clifton Reynes, Milton Keynes MK46 5DT

Country Name: England

Location: Buckinghamshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located 2 km E of Olney, 8 km NNW of Newport Pagnell, in the northeast-most corner of the county

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Houndred of Moulsoe [in Domesday]

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

Date: ca. 1350?

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

Cognate Fonts: The font at Sherington / Sherrington, in the same county

Church Notes: original church here 12thC [cf. FontNotes]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are five entries for Clifton [Reynes] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9051/clifton-reynes/] [accessed 10 September 2015], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Lysons (1806-1833) describe an octagonal baptismal font "enriched with figures in niches". Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 mentions simply "an ancient font" in this church. Sheahan (1862) describes the church as "an interesting structure, supposed to have been built about the time of King Edward I" [i.e., 1272-1307], "repaired at a considerable expense" in 1842-1843; "The octagonal font is very fine, having each side ornamented wih the effigy of a saint, in bold relief, under a Gothic canopy." The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) finds an earlier fabric in the church tower: "The lower stage of the tower is the only remaining portion of a 12th-century church [...] the existing aisles were added in the 13th century [...] The font is a fine example of late 14th-century work. The bowl is octagonal and has a small shaft at each angle, from each pair of which springs a segmental arch forming a niche which contains a figure. In the niche on the north face are figures of the Virgin and Child, with St. Margaret and St. Katherine in the niches on either side, and on the south is the Trinity, with St. Peter and St. Paul in the flanking niches. In the east and west niches are St. Michael and St. Mary Magdalene or, more likely, St. Barbara, as the object held in the hands resembles a tower rather than the box of ointment. The lower edge of the bowl is enriched with heads and foliage, and each face of the octagonal stem, which stands on a moulded base, has a traceried panel." Pevsner (1960) notes: "Font. C14. Octagonal, with figures of the Virgin, the Trinity, and Saints." The wooden cover is an octagonal pyramid with open-work traceried panels; floral finial; appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.153573, -0.687395

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 9′ 12.86″ N, 0° 41′ 14.62″ W

UTM: 30U 658207 5780641

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: yes; chain and pulley

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-04-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960

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