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Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 January 2006 by Andrew Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/103124] [accessed 9 December 2011]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 14403HED
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Hedsor, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, SL8 5JW
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SW from Beaconsfield, 7 km ESE of Marlow
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Desborough
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the early-13thC church here)
Font Notes:
No entry for Hedsor found in the Domesday survey. Langley (1797) reports: "the font is a small marble urn, placed against the wall". There is no mention of a font in Sheahan (1863) or in the RCHAM (Buckinghamshire, 1912). The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "References to Hedsor Church, the living of which is a rectory, occur in the early 13th century [...] The chancel and nave are evidently of mediaeval date, but were very considerably restored about 1600, and the earliest details remaining now are of the 15th century; the other parts of the church are modern"; no font mentioned in the VCH entry. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font of the earlier building].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 659803 5715446
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.56741, -0.69424
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 34′ 2.68″ N, 0° 41′ 39.26″ W

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. 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, p. 280 / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=qkUQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA422&lpg=PA422&dq=desborough+church++font&source=bl&ots=m2z-0JYqDP&sig=BAVXLvAqr8KFFnFvP7DyRMRH93c&hl=en&ei=lanUSb7vLY22NJyr7OoO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4#PPR3,M1] [accessed 2 April 2009]
  • 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, p. 888