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INFORMATION

FontID: 10607ASP
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Botolph
Church Patron Saints: St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Church Location: Church Street, Aspley Guise, Bedfordshire, MK17 8HN
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located 4 km NW of Woburn, 10 km from Milton Keynes, near the Bucks. border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Manshead
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Medieval
There is an entry for Aspley [Guise] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9436/aspley-guise/] [accessed 21 September 2015], but it mentions neither ckeric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 2011) notes: "The church and two parts of the tithes of Aspley Guise were granted to Newnham Priory by Simon de Beauchamp, which grant was subsequently confirmed by the Bishop of Lincoln and Henry II" [1154+ ] The [present] church of St. Botolph has been so much altered and repaired in modern times that its architectural history is in large measure uncertain. [...] The font is circular, dating from the 14th century, with shafts at the angles with moulded capitals and bases." Pevsner (1960) mentions a baptismal font, "drum-shaped, with four shafts", perhaps of the 13th century. [NB: we have no information on the font from the 12th-century church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.016239, -0.628756
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 0′ 58.46″ N, 0° 37′ 43.52″ W
UTM: 30U 662717 5765499

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-10-24 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968