Quainton / Chentone / Coynton / Quainton Malet / Qwenthon / Quinton

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 October 2010 by Peter Austin [aka pete-astn] [www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/5062809579/]

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - varied

Scene Description: mixed types: pointed, inscribed, etc., on only seven of the eight sides -- seen here are, L->R: east (cusped quatrefoil); northeast (round quatrefoil in a circle); north (cusped quatrefoil with inscribed saltire)

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 October 2010 by Peter Austin [aka pete-astn] [www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/5062809579/]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 October 2010 by Peter Austin [aka pete-astn] [www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/5062809579/]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: photograph taken in 1990 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3267084] [accessed 11 December 2015]

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view of church interior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Quainton: Church of the Holy Cross & St Mary. The name of the church comes from the church noticeboard. Earlier versions have St Mary first (both with and without The Virgin) followed by Holy Cross. The earliest parts of the church date from no earlier than the first half of the 14th century."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 May 2009 by Nigel Cox [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1294676] [accessed 11 December 2015]

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view of font and cover - norteast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 October 2010 by Peter Austin [aka pete-astn] [www.flickr.com/photos/53366513@N00/5062809579/]

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view of font and cover - north side

Scene Description: four basin sides visible here, L->R: northeast (round quatrefoil in a circle); north (cusped quatrefoil with inscribed saltire); northwest (cusped quatrefoil); west (blank)

Image Source: photograph taken in 1990 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3267090] [accessed 11 December 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10602QUA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin and Holy Cross

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & Holy Cross

Church Location: Church Street, Quainton, Buckinghamshire HP22 4AP -- Tel.: +44 1296 655237

Country Name: England

Location: Buckinghamshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located 8 km SW of Winslow, 10 km NW of Aylesbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Ashendon

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Peter Austin for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Quainton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7420/quainton/] [accessed 11 December 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Lipscomb (1831- ) writes: "The Font near the west pillar of the south aisle, is large, octagonal, lined with lead, having sculptured compartments, with quatrefoils (partly defaced) resting on a plain pedestal and a square plinth. Over it is a carved cross, from which was anciently suspended by pulleys, the wooden cover of the basin, with the date 1662." In Sheahan (1862), after Lipscomb. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "In 1223 Hervey Malet secured his claim to the advowson of Quainton Church against the Knights Hospitallers and Roger de Wimbervill. [...] No part of the existing building appears to be earlier than the first half of the 14th century, to which date the nave and aisles belong [...] The font is of the 15th century and has an octagonal bowl panelled on all sides but one." Noted in Pevsner (1960): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], simple." Seven of the eight sides of the basin are deeply carved with a variety of quatrefoil patterns; the eight side, now facing west, is blank and was never carved; there is graded moulding at the underbowl, and a single roll moulding at the bottom end of the chamfer; the octagonal pedestal base is totally plain; the rectangular plinth is modern. Octagonal dome-shaped wooden font cover with Latin cross-on-orb finial; date unknown. [NB: was there an earlier font from the original Decorated church?]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.8749, -0.9121

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 52′ 29.64″ N, 0° 54′ 43.56″ W

UTM: 30U 643727 5749185

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: hemispheric with eight sides; plain; orb-and-cross finial

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-04-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Lipscomb, George, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, London: J.B. Nichols, 1831-1843

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