Linslade / Hlincgeladae / Lichelade / Lincelada / Lincelade / Lynchelad / Lynchelade / Lyneslade / Old Linslade
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ken Goodearl, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Ken Goodearl [http://www.petergoodearl.co.uk/ken/aylesburyfonts/aylesburyfont_pics.htm#aylesbury] [accessed 31 October 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 29 Oct 2007)
animal - fabulous animal or monster
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1071101023_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ken Goodearl, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Ken Goodearl [http://www.petergoodearl.co.uk/ken/aylesburyfonts/aylesburyfont_pics.htm#aylesbury] [accessed 31 October 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 29 Oct 2007)
design element - motifs - scroll
Scene Description: perhaps vegetation?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ken Goodearl, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Ken Goodearl [http://www.petergoodearl.co.uk/ken/aylesburyfonts/aylesburyfont_pics.htm#aylesbury] [accessed 31 October 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 29 Oct 2007)
view of church exterior - west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ken Goodearl, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Ken Goodearl [http://www.petergoodearl.co.uk/ken/aylesburyfonts/aylesburyfont_pics.htm#aylesbury] [accessed 31 October 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 29 Oct 2007)
view of base - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ken Goodearl, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Ken Goodearl [http://www.petergoodearl.co.uk/ken/aylesburyfonts/aylesburyfont_pics.htm#aylesbury] [accessed 31 October 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 29 Oct 2007)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10598LIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Old Linslade Road, Leighton-Linslade, Central Bedfordshire LU7 7PS
Site Location: Bedfordshire, East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 3 km NW of Leighton-Buzzard, at the E end of the county, on the border with Beds.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: formerly in Buckinghamshire
Additional Comments: dmaged font / repaired font / altered font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Linslade [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9125/linslade/] [accessed 20 November 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862), who includes Linslade in his history of Buckinghamshire, reports a circular font in the old church, St. Mary's. He also notes the new church, St. Barnabas', built in 1849, and its new font of Bath stone. The Victoria County Hystory (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) describes the early font at St. Mary's: "The 13th-century font has a circular bowl with carved ornament of foliage and animals round the top, and an octagonal stem with a moulded base." Noted in Pevsner (1960): "Font. Late C12, circular, with a band of scrolls and beasts." [NB: The same information is included in Pevsner's 1968 book on Bedfordshire, in which Linslade St Mary's also appears]. The font consists of a round basin with cylindrical sides and a rounded lower basin and underbowl; raised on a plain octagonal pedestal base and moulded two-step lower base, the stem and base a later addition. The basin is badly cracked at several spots and has been repaired. The wooden cover is flat and round. [NB: Linslade, officially in Bedfordshire, is located right at the county border between this county and Buckinghamshire].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ken Goodearl, of [http://www.petergoodearl.co.uk/ken/aylesburyfonts/aylesburyfont_pics.htm#aylesbury] for his photographs of church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 659664 5756068
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.9324, -0.6776
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 55′ 56.64″ N, 0° 40′ 39.36″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 109
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960, p. 19, 188
- 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. 707