Eggington

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design element - motifs - lobe

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2013, in the Bedfordshire County Council web site [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/Eggington/EggingtonChurchArchitecture.aspx] [accessed 22 September 2015]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: forming the bases of the five columns

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Michael's Eggington. The nave is C14. Extensive restoration after a fire in the C19."

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2014 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3849777] [accessed 22 September 2015]

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view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bedfordshire County Council, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken July 2013, in the Bedfordshire County Council web site [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/Eggington/EggingtonChurchArchitecture.aspx] [accessed 22 September 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10632EGG
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: High Street, Eggington, Central Bedfordshire LU7 9PQ
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A4012, 4 km E of Leighton Buzzard
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Manshead
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, centre aisle
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Church Notes: originally a chapel of ease to Leighton-Buzzard
No individual entry found for Eggington in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Bedfordshire, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The church [...] has been entirely restored, but as far as the walls are concerned dates from the early part of the 14th century [...] The font, which is at the west end of the nave, is formed of a circular bowl with four shafts round it, which have moulded capitals and a base of 13th-century type; it is built in stone with horizontal joints, the middle section is original, dating from the 13th century, but the top and base are modern, made to match." A font here is noted in Pevsner (1968): "Cauldron-like, or rather quatrefoiled with corner shafts, oddly undecided in shape. E.E." [i.e., Early English]. The basin is not really quatrefoiled but it rather has lobes or 'bulges' on the outside, which the reconstruction has tried to match. The row of nail-head (?) motif around the basin appears to be part of the reconstruction.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.916232, -0.611449
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 54′ 58.43″ N, 0° 36′ 41.21″ W
UTM: 30U 664270 5754417

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: 2015-09-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968