Ibstone / Ebestan / Hibestanes / Ipstone / Ybestan / Ybestane / Ykkerton / Ypestan

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church of St Nicholas, Ibstone dates back to the 12th century and now stands apart from the village it serves."

Image Source: digital photograph taken December 1987 by john shortland [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1690427] [accessed 16 October 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the striated pattern on the sides is probably part of the modern re-cutting

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 March 2009 by John Ward

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 14154IPS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Ibstone, Buckinghamshire, HP14 3YD

Country Name: England

Location: Buckinghamshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off (S) the M40-A4020, 3 km S of Stokenchurch, 11 km WNW of Marlow [NB: the village is partly in Buckinghamshire, with the county line going through one of the rooms of the manor house]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Pyrton [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Desborough

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 12th century [re-cut?], Medieval [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Ward, of Oxfordshire Churches [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches], for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Ibestone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU7593/ibstone/] [accessed 16 October 2015], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. There is no mention of a font in this church in the corresponding entry in The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850). Sheahan (1862) notes the church, "a small ancient building", but not a font in it. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925)) notes: "The nave dates from the early 12th century [...] The tub font is probably 12th-century work, though recut." The bucket-shaped basin has been repaired and re-tooled; stands on a squat circular base; the wooden cover is round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern, perhaps 19th-century.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.624633, -0.909584

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 37′ 28.68″ N, 0° 54′ 34.5″ W

UTM: 30U 644698 5721360

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2008-12-31 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