Wymington / Wimentone / Wimington / Wimmentone / Wimmington

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design element - architectural - arch-head - Ogee - 16

Image Source: engraving in Parker (1850)

Copyright Instructions: PD

design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: engraving in Parker (1850)

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design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: including large quatrefoils

Image Source: engraving in Parker (1850)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 April 2010 by Paul Farmer [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1825355] [accessed 14 September 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: " St Lawrence's church, Willington. Most of the church is thought to have been built around 1541 for Sir John Gostwick. The nearby manor house and dovecote were also built for him. Gostwick worked for both Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2015 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4510641] [accessed 14 September 2015]

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view of church interior - chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 February 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/330021] [accessed 14 September 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10616WYM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Laurence [aka St. Lawrence]

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Location: Church Lane, Wymington, Bedfordshire NN10 9LW

Country Name: England

Location: Bedfordshire, East

Directions to Site: Located off the A6, just S of Rushden

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans

Historical Region: Hundred of Willey

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the westernmost bay of the arcade that devides the nave from the S aisle

Century and Period: 14th century (mid?) [altered], Decorated [altered]

Cognate Fonts: The font at Sharnbrook, in the same county

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are six entries for Wymington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9564/wymington/] [accessed 14 September 2015], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Lysons (1806-1833) lists the font here as one of a group of octagonal fonts made mostly of Totternhoe stone, this one decorated with Gothic tracery on the sides. Noted and illustrated in Parker (1850). The Kelly Directory of Bedfordshire (1898) states that the original font of the late Decorated church remains. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The church is all of one build, a very interesting example, begun, as it seems, about 1350 [...] The font is octagonal with a band of trefoiled ogee arches round the top of the bowl, and round the octagonal stem, which has evidently been shortened, is panelling of quatrefoiled circles." Pevsner (1968) writes: "Font. Octagonal, probably Dec[orated]. The stem with quatrefoils, the bowl strongly moulded, and at the top a small frieze of ogee arches."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.13544, -0.385471

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 8′ 7.58″ N, 0° 23′ 7.7″ W

UTM: 30U 678931 5779326

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone [chalk / Totternhoe stone?]

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-09-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Kelly, Kelly's Directory for Bedfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1898

Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822

Parker, John Henry, A Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic Architecture, Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1850

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968