Wooburn / Uburn / Ugburn / Waborne / Waburne / Woburn / Woodbourne
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bikeboy, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2014 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4193661] [accessed 26 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Paul's church, Wooburn. The earliest parts of the church date from the C12. The tower was built in 1442. The outside and inside were heavily restored by William Butterfield (1814-1900) in the mid C19."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bikeboy, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2014 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4193650] [accessed 26 October 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: the font in this photograph is the modern replacement
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buckinghamshire County Council, 2007
Image Source: B&W photograph in www.buckscc.goc.uk [accessed 22 March 2007]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the font in this photograph is the modern replacement
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Buckinghamshire County Council, 2007
Image Source: B&W photograph in www.buckscc.goc.uk [accessed 22 March 2007]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 12849WOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Paul
Church Patron Saints: St. Paul
Church Location: Town Lane, Wooburn Green, Buckinghamshire, HP10 0PW
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A4094, 5 km WSW of Beaconsfield, 8 km E of High Wycombe
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Desborough
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Wooburn [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU9087/wooburn/] [accessed 26 October 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Langley (1797) reports: "The font is a curious and very ancient piece of carved work, with some remains of arms, among which are three fleurs de lis." Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a curiously-carved font" in this church. Sheahan (1862) notes that the church is "a very ancient structure, most successfully restored in 1857", and reports: "The font is new, and nicely sculptured". The Victoria County (Buckingham, 1925) informs: "The earliest portion of the present building is the nave, which dates from about 1180 [...] The font is modern. There is said to have been and ancient curiously carved font in the church which had disappeared long before 1870" [the VCH has footnote: "Rec. of Bucks. iv, 16. Some old glass disappeared about the same time"]. [NB: the old font must have been replaced in the 1857 renovation reported in iSheahan [cf. supra])
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.580841, -0.689528
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 34′ 51.03″ N, 0° 41′ 22.3″ W
UTM: 30U 660082 5716949
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: yes; pulley system & counterweights
Notes: [cf. ImageArea]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2007-03-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Langley, Thomas, The History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Desborough, and Deanery of Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire […], London: Printed for R. Faulder […] and B. and J. White, 1797
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
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