Edlesborough / Aedulfi Berga / Eddlesborough / Edelesbury / Edelvesberge / Edgebro / Eddinberge / Edingeberge / Edoffebergh / Edulferesberga / Edulnesberth / Hedesburuwe
Image copyright © John Ward, 2008
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Results: 6 records
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 March 2008 by John Ward [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 March 2008 by John Ward [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches]
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - pointed or cusped quatrefoil - 7
Scene Description: the west side of the font is rough, never carved[cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 March 2008 by John Ward [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Mary the Virgin, Edlesborough. This magnificent church is a landmark for miles around perched as it is atop a 125m (410') hill. This is one of the best views of it, taken from in front of the gates to a farm (Church View Farm I think) on the Leighton Road. Though still consecrated it rarely holds a service these days and is cared for by The Churches Conservation Trust"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rob Farrow, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 December 2007 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/631834] [accessed 16 November 2015]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Edlesborough Church from Ivinghoe Beacon. The church of St Mary the Virgin in Edlesborough can be seen for miles around, perched as it is on a 125m hill. It is seen here from the top of the 233m Ivinghoe Beacon."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rob Farrow, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 February 2014 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3852812] [accessed 16 November 2015]
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view of font in context - west side
Scene Description: showing the un-carved west side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 March 2008 by John Ward [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 14453EDL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [redundant since 1975]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 19 A4146, Edlesborough, Buckinghamshire LU6 2EP
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A4146, 5-6 km SE of Leighton Buzzard, near the borders with Herts. and Beds.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Cottesloe [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave, centre aisle
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
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
Church Notes: "in 1975 it retired from full-time employment as a parish church and in 1977 it was vested in the Redundant Churches Fund. The Church of St. Mary is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust for preservation" [source: http://www.eatonbray.co.uk/edlesborough_church/index.html] [accessed 12 April 2009]
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Edlesborough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9719/edlesborough/] [accessed 16 November 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. Parker (1850) writes: "The font plain, octagonal, with quatrefoils in panels on the sides." Ditto in Sheahan (1862). In the Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925): "Gilbert of Ghent gave the parish church of St. Mary in Edlesborough to the monks of Bardney Abbey, Lincolnshire, and the grant was successively confirmed by his son Walter in 1115 [...] No detail in the present building of an earlier date than the middle of the 13th century survives. [...] The font, which probably dates from the 15th century, has an octagonal basin with a sunk quatrefoil panel in each face and is supported by an octagonal stem with a moulded base." [NB: not all the sides of the basin are decorated; the decorated sides alternate with blank panels]. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP9700119062] (1966) notes: "Very fine C15 fittings include: octagonal stone font with quatrefoil panels, the cover renewed but retaining C15 carved wooden finial".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.8612, -0.5928
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 51′ 40.32″ N, 0° 35′ 34.08″ W
UTM: 30U 665755 5748340
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th century [re-built]
Material: wood, oak
Notes: only the finial is 15thC [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-04-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850
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