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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10604SLO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary [cf. FontNotes]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Address: Church Street, Slough, Buckinghamshire, SL1 1PJ
Site Location: Berkshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just NE of Eton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: formerly in Buckinghamshire -- Hiundred of Stoke
Font Notes:
No entry found for Slough in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Bucks., vol. 1925) notes: "The modern church of St. Mary in Church Street was built in 1837 [...] As the old parish church of St. Lawrence of Upton [...] had been allowed to fall into decay, the parochial rights and privileges of the latter were granted to St. Mary's." A font is noted in Pevsner (1960): "Font. Cylindrical, Norman, with tall blank arches on thin colonnettes." [NB: this probably refers to the font from Upton-cum-Chalvey, the medieval town mentioned in Domesday (Slough is not)] [cf. Index entry for Upton-cum-Chalvey]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 667025 5709288

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960, p. 237