Biddenham / Bideham / Bidenham
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - patterns - tracery
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symbol - shield - blank - 8
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view of basin - interior
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view of church exterior - southwest end
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover in context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10624BID
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: 67 Church End, Biddenham, Bedford Borough MK40 4AR
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off the A4280, 4 km WNW of Bedford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Buckelowe [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Willey
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W of the S door
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Hinson, of www.yorkshireCDbooks.com, for the photographs of this font.
Church Notes: priginal church here 12thC
Font Notes:
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There are ten entries for Diddenham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL0250/biddenham/] [accessed 10 September 2015], none of which mention cleric or priest in them. The Victoria County History (Beford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The church of St. James [...] appears to have had an aisleless nave and chancel in the 12th century [...] the font, to the west of the south door, dates from the 15th century and is octagonal with traceried panels on an octagonal stem." Noted in Pevsner (1968): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], with tracery patterns." The baptismal font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides, the panels deeply carved with chiefly quatrefoil patterns, some with rosettes inscribed; the inside well is lead lined and has a central drain; graded underbol chamfer; octagonal stem with large plain shields; moulded lower base. The font cover consists of an octagonal oak base, flat and plain, and four iron ribes that meet at the finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.138461, -0.519798
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 8′ 18.46″ N, 0° 31′ 11.27″ W
UTM: 30U 669728 5779339
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood and metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-09-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968