Fulmer / Folemere / Foulmere / Fouwelemere / Fugelmere / Fulmere
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10589FUL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Windmill Road, Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, SL3 6HW
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km W of Uxbridge, 8 km SE of Beaconsfiels, adjacent to Gerrards Cross
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Stoke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1610?
Century and Period: 17th century(early?) [restored], Jacobean [altered]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font
Church Notes: original chapel of ease by 1291; present brick church early 17thC
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
No entry found for Fulmer in the Domesday survey. Sheahan (1862) notes that the church "was rebuilt in 1610" but does not mention a font in it. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "In 1291 Fulmer was a chapelry annexed to Datchet Church. [...] It was made a parochial church and rectory and endowed with the great tithes of Fulmer by the Dean and Canons of Windsor in 1553." The VCH (ibid.) does not mention the 17th-century font. The wooden font is noted in Rouse (1951). Pevsner (1960) notes that the font cover is "Jacobean, recently restored and recoloured", but does not mention the font itself. The Fulmer village web site notes: "Looking from the entrance to the far right corner of the church you will see the wooden Jacobean Font. This font is the original font of the church and dates from the early 17th century. It lay mutilated in the church tower for many years until rescued and restored by Clive Rouse F.S.A. in 1959. When the church underwent alteration in Victorian times, the Stone Font near the church door was built to replace the wooden Jacobean Font."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.5613,
-0.5603
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 33′ 40.68″ N,
0° 33′ 37.08″ W
UTM: 30U 669107 5715067
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
wood
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century / Jacobean
Material:
wood,
Notes: restored, etc. [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-05-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960
Rouse, E. Clive, "A Wooden Font: and Some Allegorical Glass Roundels in Fulmer Church", 15, pt. 5, Records of Buckinghamshire, 1951, pp. 308-310; r["References"]
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