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blank

Scene Description: one of the eight sides was left blank, but not rough [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

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design element - architectural - arch or window - cinquefoiled

Scene Description: four of them arrabged two-up-two-down on one of the sides of the basin

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

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design element - architectural - arch or window - cinquefoiled

Scene Description: this one occupies a whole side of the basin and has beautiful spandrels

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

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design element - motifs - Ogee - in a circle

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle

Scene Description: notice the damage and repairs on this side of the basin

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

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symbol - shield - blank - in an octafoil - cusped octafoil

Scene Description: several, on different sides of the basin

Image Source: detail of a photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The local parish church dedicated to St James. Looks to have had many additions and alterations over the years."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2008 by Mr Biz [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/845876] [accessed 8 November 2014]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St James's Church, Great Horwood. At core a Norman building."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2014 by Hugh Chevallier [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4062703] [accessed 8 November 2014]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

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view of font and cover

Image Source: photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Timothy Marlow

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10591HOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: High Street [B4033], Great Horwood, Buckinghamshire, MK17 0RQ

Country Name: England

Location: Buckinghamshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the B4033, 3-4 km N of Winslow, 10 km SE of Buckingham, 10 km WSW of Milton Keynes

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Mursley [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Timothy Marlow for his photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for [Great and Little] Horwood [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/great-and-little-horwood/] [accessed 8 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862) notes: "The Church (St. James) is a large handsome structure chiefly in the Decorated style [...] the font is octagonal, and embellished with sculptured shields". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "The church of Great Horwood was granted with the manor to Longueville Priory by Walter Giffard, [...] and the advowson has always followed the descent of the manor [...] The church was assessed at £10 in 1291. [...] The church was apparently rebuilt during the latter part of the 14th and the early 15th centuries. The only feature of an earlier date is the south doorway, which is probably part of the former building re-used. There was a thorough restoration in 1874 [...] The octagonal font is of 15th-century date, seven of the sides having sunk panels of various designs. The stem and base are modern." Noted in Pevsner (1960): "Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with tracery panels and shields in foils." [NB: this Walter Giffard, 1st Duke of Buckingham, died in 1102; he was the son of the Walter Giffard, aka Giffard of Barbastre, who was a cousin of William the Conqueror and one of his lords at Hastings -- this dating means that a church existed here before 1102].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.97411, -0.878994

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 58′ 26.8″ N, 0° 52′ 44.38″ W

UTM: 30U 645684 5760283

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal pyramid with crenellated base; cross finial

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-05-16 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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