Wicken nr. Stony Stratford / Wicha / Wiche / Wick Dive
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B01:
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 12
Scene Description: the two remaining iron staples can be seen at opposite ends of the rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 1995
Image Source: digital photograph in the CRSBI [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-wicke.html] [accessed 7 May 2009]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: the two remaining iron staples can be seen at opposite ends of the rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 1995
Image Source: digital photograph in the CRSBI [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-wicke.html] [accessed 7 May 2009]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2001
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2001 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/395794] [accessed 11 June 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2001
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2001 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/395800] [accessed 11 June 2012]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: the font at the back (west end)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2001
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2001 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/395808] [accessed 11 June 2012]
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view of font
Scene Description: the two remaining iron staples can be seen at opposite ends of the rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Kathryn A. Morrison, 1995
Image Source: digital photograph in the CRSBI [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-nh-wicke.html] [accessed 7 May 2009]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 12835WIC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Evangelist
Church Location: Church Lane, Wicken, Northamptonshire MK19 6BN
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located 6 km WSW of Stony Stratford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough [formerly in the diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: Hundred of Cleley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the tower
Century and Period: 12th century (late?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
There are two entries for this Wicken [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7439/wicken/] [accessed 26 July 2016], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a very ancient font" in this church. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008) with date of the second half of the 12th century, "may be the sole relic of an earlier structure on the site", remarking on the old iron cover staples on the southeast and northwest corners of the basin. Noted in the Victoria County History (Northamptonshire, vol. 5, 2002): "The church at Wick Dive is not mentioned in 1086 (fn. 19) but must have been built fairly soon afterwards, for in about 1130 Henry I confirmed the gift by Robert d'Oyley of two parts of the tithes there to the church of St. George which Robert founded in Oxford castle. [...] The former parish church of Wick Dive (since 1587 that of the united parish of Wicken) is dedicated to St. John the Evangelist and consists of a nave, chancel, north and south aisles, west tower and porch. No medieval fabric appears to survive, although there is a late 12th-century square font-bowl with simple arcading." The base consists of a central shaft and four outer colonnettes, all raised on an octagonal lower base or plinth. The VCH mentions that, in the 1830s, Arthur Hill Trevor, "the tennant of Wicken Park, who also restored the old font which had lain neglected in the churchyard since the rebuilding" [NB: according to the same source that re-bulding took place ca. 1753]. In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Square, of Purbeck marble, with three shallow blank arches on each side."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.048894,
-0.915038
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 2′ 56.02″ N,
0° 54′ 54.14″ W
UTM: 30U 642970 5768528
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Diameter (inside rim): 55 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 66 x 65 x 68 x 65 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [CRSBI (2008)]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2007-03-19 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2007-03-19 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973
