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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: MOD FONT IN PRISON [Posted on 25th December, 2014] digital photograph [www.oxford.anglican.org/i-was-in-prison-and-you-came-to-see-me/] [accessed 23 February 2016] Source caption: "Alan Hodgetts (centre) with representatives of All Saints, Milton Keynes and the 14th century font." MOD FONT IN PRISON-2 [Posted on 25th December, 2014] digital photograph [www.oxford.anglican.org/i-was-in-prison-and-you-came-to-see-me/] [accessed 23 February 2016] Source caption: "The font in position at HMP Woodhill"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2015 by Dave Kelly [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4609679] [accessed 23 February 2016]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "This font, which is thought to date from the fifteenth century, was banished to the churchyard as part of the Victorian restoration. It was used there as a flower trough! It was returned to the north chapel in the church in about 1980 to prevent further weathering. George Lipscomb, the nineteenth century historian, decribes the font as having its basin decorated with slender pillars, although it is difficult to imagine how this can have been. Its simplicity suits the style of the church, and in June 2013 it was returned to its rightful place at the west end of the central aisle of the nave. Its rather ornate Victorian replacement found a new home in the Christian Faith Garden at the local prison." [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph in MKHeritage [www.mkheritage.co.uk/tva/All_S/Font.jpg] [accessed 23 February 2016]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the Victorian font formerly at Milton Keynes' All Saints -- Source caption: "Alan Hodgetts (centre) with representatives of All Saints, Milton Keynes and the 14th century font." [NB: the location is Her Majesty's Prison Woodhill]

Image Source: photograph posted in the Diocese of Oxford news site 25 December 2014 [www.oxford.anglican.org/i-was-in-prison-and-you-came-to-see-me/] [accessed 23 February 2016]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the Victorian font formerly at Milton Keynes' All Saints -- Source caption: "The font in position at HMP Woodhill" [NB: the HMP acronym stands for 'Her Majesty's Prison']

Image Source: photograph posted in the Diocese of Oxford news site 25 December 2014 [www.oxford.anglican.org/i-was-in-prison-and-you-came-to-see-me/] [accessed 23 February 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13227MIL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Willen Road, Milton Keynes MK10 9AF

Country Name: England

Location: Buckinghamshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the A5, 6 km SSE of Newport Pagnell, 25-30 km SE of Northampton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Moulsoe [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Newport

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N chapel [cf. FontNotes]

Date: ca. 1330?

Century and Period: 14th century (early?), Early English

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Milton [Keynes] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8939/milton-keynes/] [accessed 23 February 2016], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Sheahan (1862) describes this church: "a handsome edifice, and a very beautiful specimen of Decorated Gothic [...] It appears to heve been built in the early part of the reign of King Edward III" [i.e., 1327+ ], and notes: "the font has its basin ornamented with slender pillars". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "A church of considerable importance existed here at the end of the 12th century, but the only remains of the original structure are the east wall of the nave, the fine chancel arch, and a lancet reset in the south wall of the nave. Towards the end of the first half of the 14th century the church was almost entirely rebuilt [...] In the north chapel is a plain octagonal 14th-century font, which lay till recently in the churchyard, but has been brought back into the church by the present rector." The Milton Keynes Heritage Association site [www.mkheritage.co.uk/tva/All_S/All_srestoration.html] [accessed 18 November 2007] informs that "many of the furnishings were changed including the pulpit, font and pews" in the 19th-century restoration under the direction of G.E. Street [NB: it does not mention the font in the north chapel; this chapel occupies the northeast corner of the building; the 19th-century font was located towards the northwest side of the nave]. A Diocese of Oxford news posted 25 December 2014 [www.oxford.anglican.org/i-was-in-prison-and-you-came-to-see-me/] [accessed 23 February 2016] informs of a 14th-century font from the Church of All Saints, Milton Keynes, having been donated for use as a garden ornament at Her Majesty's Prison Woodhill, near Milton Keynes [NB: fortunately the news is wrong; the font now serving time at HMP Woodhill is actually the Victorian font that had replaced the medieval one at All Saints' at the time of the 19th-century restoration of the church [cf. supra]]. It is not clear whether the present is the one described in Sheahan above, one that had a "basin ornamented with slender pillars", as the present basin is totally plain.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.043733, -0.706508

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 2′ 37.44″ N, 0° 42′ 23.43″ W

UTM: 30U 657286 5768385

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-04-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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