Stoke Mandeville / Stoches / Stoke by Aylesbury / Stoke Maundevile

Results: 13 records

design element - motifs - floral - rose - Tudor rose

Font image
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Image Source: B&W photograph in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912- )
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design element - architectural - building?

or a chrismatory? [cf. Font notes]
Scene Description: or a chrismatory? [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: B&W photograph in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912- )
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design element - motifs - foliage

Font image
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Image Source: B&W photograph in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912- )
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design element - motifs - floral - square flower - 16

a band of, all around
Scene Description: a band of, all around
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Image Source: B&W photograph in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912- )
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view of church exterior - south view

Source caption: "St Mary the Virgin, Stoke Mandeville. Built in 1886 to replace the old church [...] half a mile south of here. The font dating from around 1600 was removed from the old church and placed here."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary the Virgin, Stoke Mandeville. Built in 1886 to replace the old church [...] half a mile south of here. The font dating from around 1600 was removed from the old church and placed here."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bikeboy, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 January 2015 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4300011] [accessed 30 September 2015]
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view of church exterior

the old church today -- Source caption: "This heap of rubble is all that remains today – but beneath it will be vital archaeological evidence."
Scene Description: the old church today -- Source caption: "This heap of rubble is all that remains today – but beneath it will be vital archaeological evidence."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph in Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society [www.bucksas.org.uk/hbgprojects/hs2stokemandeville.html] [accessed 30 September 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view

Source caption: "The derelict old church of St Mary the Virgin as it was in the late 19th century."
Scene Description: Source caption: "The derelict old church of St Mary the Virgin as it was in the late 19th century."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph in the Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society [www.bucksas.org.uk/hbgprojects/hs2stokemandeville.html] [accessed 30 September 2015]
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view of church interior - nave

the interior of the old church, when the walls were still standing
Scene Description: the interior of the old church, when the walls were still standing
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Image Source: B&W photograph in the RCHM [www.british-history.ac.uk/sites/default/files/publications/pubid-1302/images/fig147.jpg] [accessed 30 September 2015]
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design element - motifs - tracery - trefoiled - 8

Font image
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Image Source: B&W photograph in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912- )
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Font image
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Image Source: B&W photograph in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912- )
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 10605STO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Lower Road B4443, Stoke Mandeville, Buckinghamshire, HP22 5XB
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B4443, 5 km SSE of Aylesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Aylesbury
Additional Comments: re-cycled font: from the old church -- disappeared font: (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Stoke [Mandeville] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8310/stoke-mandeville/] [accessed 30 September 2015]; it mentions a church in it. Sheahan (1862) writes: "the ancient font is decorated with trefoiled arches". Noted in the Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 2, 1908): "The narrow chancel arch appears to be the only remaining architectural feature of a small 12thcentury church [...] The church of ST. MARY is a modern structure [...] built in 1886 [...] The font is octagonal, of the 15th century, with square panels on the bowl, the alternate panels containing a rose, a leaf pattern, a blank shield, and what seems to be the representation of a shrine with a gabled top, on which is a cresting of trefoiled arches, with a cross at either end." Noted and illustrated in the RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912): "[this font] has an interesting carved panel showing the chrismatory or box containing the holy oils used in baptism, etc." Noted in Pevsner (1960): " Font. Perp[endicular], octagonal, with pleasant leaf motifs, also a shield with the symbol of the Trinity and a shrine." [NB: the old church was demolished in the mid-20th century; we have no information on its original font].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 652075 5739447
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.7852, -0.7952
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 47′ 6.72″ N, 0° 47′ 42.72″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of the historical monuments in Buckinghamshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1912-, vol. 1: xxvii, 282 and pl.
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Buckinghamshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960, p. 243-244
  • 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. 197