Emberton / Ambretone / Emberdestone / Embirtone

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view of church exterior - north view

Font image
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

Font ID: 10586EMB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1400?
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: 6 Church Lane, Emberton, Milton Keynes MK46 5DD
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
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
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the early-13thC (?) church here)
Font Notes:
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

UTM: 30U 656863 5778722
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.136716, -0.707908
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 08′ 12.18″ N, 0° 42′ 28.47″ W

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-. 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, vol. I: p. 489
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960, p. 115
  • 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. 530