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

Results: 4 records

design element - architectural - arch - Ogee

Scene Description: several, on the sides of the stem of the base

design element - motifs - floral - rosette

Scene Description: on some of the panels of the underbowl chamfer

design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: on the panels of the basin

view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Philip Jeffrey, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2013 by Philip Jeffrey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3599811] [accessed 22 February 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

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
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