Beaconsfield / Bekenesfeld

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view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2009 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 March 2014 by John Lord [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3878805] [accessed 27 October 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "The Church of St Mary & All Saints, Beaconsfield. The north and south aisles and arcades, and the organ and organ loft - The church was rebuilt of flint and Bath stone by the Victorians in 1869." The modern font and cover are partially visible here through the left [south] arcade, at the far [west] end of the south aisle.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2013 by Dave Hitchborne [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3656415] [accessed 27 October 2015]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2009 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2009 by Colin Smith

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view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken January 2009 by Colin Smith

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14226BEA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary and All Saints

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & All Saints

Church Location: 2 Windsor End, Parish Office, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, HP9 2JW -- Tel.: +44 1494 676690

Country Name: England

Location: Buckinghamshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located 16 km N of Windsor, 27 km SE of Aylesbury, 40 km NW of London (Charing Cross)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Burnham

Century and Period: , Medieval

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for the photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

No entry found for Beaconsfield in the Domesday survey. Sheahan (1862) remarks that the chancel of this church has some Early English features, but mentions no font in it. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) reports a modern baptismal font in this church which, the VCH (ibid.) suggests, "was probably built during the second half of the 15th century". The present font consists of a quatrefoil-shaped basin the vertical sides of which are decorated with a lovely pattern made of five rows of four-petalled flowers all around; underbowl curving onto the stem, formed by a set of colonnettes clustered around the main shaft; the colonnettes of the base project up onto the underbowl and end in a four-petalled flower; the bases of the colonnettes are moulded. The wooden font cover has a quatrefoil base on which is a tower-like construction of open-work; raised by a pulley system; probably contemporary with the font, of the time of the 19th-century renovation of the old church [NB: we have no information on the original font of the 15th-century church, and there was an earlier church there before the Perpendicular one]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.60094, -0.638413

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 36′ 3.38″ N, 0° 38′ 18.29″ W

UTM: 30U 663551 5719297

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: yes

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-05-24 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