Hardmead No. 2 / Hardmed / Haremede / Harewemede / Harlemede / Harmede / Herouldmede / Herulfmede / Horelmede / Hormead

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design element - architectural - arch - Ogee
design element - motifs - floral - rosette
INFORMATION
FontID: 10593HAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary [aka St. Mary's]
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: Hardmead, Milton Keynes MK16 9JY
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A422, 7 km SE of Olsney, 9 km NE of Newton-Pagnell
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Mulsoe [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Newport
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church Notes: This church has been under the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches since 1982
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are two entries for Hardmead [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9347/hardmead/] [accessed 22 February 2016], one of which mentions a church in it. Sheahan (1862) notes: "the font is large and ancient". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The octagonal font is of the 15th century" [NB: cf. Index entry for Harmead No. 1 for the fragment of an earlier font in this church] . Noted in Pevsner (1960): "Font. Perp, with elaborate tracery, rosette, etc., patterns, much re-cut." The Friends of Friendless Churches site [www.friendsoffriendlesschurches.org.uk] informs: "The font is medieval and carved in clunch (hard chalk)".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.1196,
-0.6358
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 7′ 10.56″ N,
0° 38′ 8.88″ W
UTM: 30U 661859 5776977
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (clunch)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-04-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960