Yelden / Chivelden / Evelden / Giveldene / Gweldene / Gyueldene / Yealdon / Yeilden / Yeldon / Yeveldene / Yielding / Yueldene
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view of basin
Scene Description: with a metal staple in it [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arcusiridis, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2013 by Arcusiridis [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mary's_church,_Yelden.JPG] [accessed 15 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Tostevin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 June 2010 by Janice Tostevin for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 10640YEL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Lane, Yelden, Bedfordshire MK44 1AU
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located 7-8 km ESE of Higham Ferrers, towards the county border with Northamptonshire
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Stodden
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end, by one of the columns of the S arcade
Date: ca. 1500?
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Janice Tostevin for her photographs of, and information on this font
There is an entry for Yelden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL0166/yelden/] [accessed 15 September 2015], but it mentions niether cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "Yelden Church was given by Geoffrey de Trailly to Abbot Gunter and the monks of Thorney [...] early in the 12th century. [...] The church was confirmed to them by a charter of Pope Alexander III in 1162. [...] The font, at the west of the middle column of the south arcade, is octagonal and quite plain, probably 15th-century work, but has a crocketed conical wooden cover, which is probably coeval with it." Pevsner (1968) mentions only the cover, not the font: "Font cover. Perp[endicular]. Conical and crocketed." There are thin mouldings at either end of the otherwise plain octagonal stem. The font appears to have been re-cut or re-tooled in some places; one of the sides of the basin has a metal staple in it, probably from an old locking mechanism for the cover. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of the 12th-century church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.293211,
-0.518691
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 17′ 35.56″ N,
0° 31′ 7.29″ W
UTM: 30U 669215 5796550
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Basin Upper Panel Dimensions: 31-32.5 x 38 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 104 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 128 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Bob & Janice Tostevin on-site
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th-century? / Perpendicular?
Material:
wood,
oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-10-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968
