Emberton / Ambretone / Emberdestone / Embirtone
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design element - motifs - moulding
design element - motifs - panel
design element - patterns - tracery - trefoiled
view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mary Sivyour, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2009 by Mary Sivyour [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1322225] [accessed 18 February 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10586EMB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: 6 Church Lane, Emberton, Milton Keynes MK46 5DD
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A509, 3 km S of Olney, 6-7 km N of Newport Pagnell
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesde of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Mulsoe [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Newport
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1400?
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Emberton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8849/emberton/] [accessed 18 February 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Lysons (1806-1833) describe this as an octagonal baptismal font decorated with Gothic tracery. Sheahan (1862) notes: "The font is ancient, large, and octagonal, decorated with trefoil-headed arches." The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The church is mentioned in or before 1219 [...] The [present] church was built during the first half of the 14th century [...] The font, which dates from about 1400, has an octagonal bowl with traceried panels, a panelled stem and a moulded base." Pevsner (1960) writes: "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with crisply detailed blank arches and tracery."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.136716, -0.707908
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 08′ 12.18″ N, 0° 42′ 28.47″ W
UTM: 30U 656863 5778722
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-04-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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