Hedgerley / Hedgley / Hegeley / Hogeley / Huchelie / Hugeley / Huggele / Huggeleg
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view of church exterior - west view
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 3 March 2014 by John Lord [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3877578] [accessed 11 November 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Lord, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 March 2014 by John Lord [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3877573] [accessed 11 November 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10619HED
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only] [re-carved in the 15th century?] -- 15th century [base only] -- [composite font], Medieval / composite
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 Notes: mid-19thC church is 3rd on this site
Church Address: Village lane, Hedgerley, Buckinghamshire, SL2 3XB
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A355, just S of the M40 and 5 km S of Beaconsfield
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Stoke
Additional Comments: composite font / altered font / re-carved basin
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Hedgerley in the Domesday survey. The Lysons (1806-1833) note a round baptismal font decorated "with heads of animals, &c." here. In Rickman (1850): The font is circular, and enriched with shields and heads of animals." Ditto in Sheahan (1862). In Wilson's Gazetter (1870-1872). The RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912- ) notes: "Font and Font cover: circular bowl, of limestone, with eight small carvings, including three heads, one of a bishop, shields, Tudor rose, etc., probably cut in 15th century on 12th-century bowl, stem and base of clunch, late 15th-century; cover, of wood, 17th-century." The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) informs: "The font has a 12th-century circular bowl with a 15th-century stem and base. Upon the bowl have been carved, probably in the 15th century, eight small designs, including shields, heads (one of a bishop) and roses. There is a 17th-century cover of wood."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 666238 5716653
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.576401, -0.600903
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 34′ 35.05″ N, 0° 36′ 3.25″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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: 192
- 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, vol. I: p. 489
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850, [entry no.] 52
- 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. 865