Swanbourne / Soeneberno / Soenenbern / Suanaburna / Sueneberie / Sueneberne / Sueneborne / Sveneborne / Swanbourn
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view of church exterior - southeast end
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover in context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17121SWA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Swithun [aka St. Swithin's]
Church Patron Saints: St. Swithun [aka Swithin]
Church Location: 10 Mursley Road, Swanbourne, Buckinghamshire MK17 0SH
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the B4032, 3 km E of Winslow, 5 km W of Stewkley
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Mursley [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Cottesloe
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 13th century [re-tooled], Early English [altered]
There are five entries for Swanbourne [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8027/swanbourne/] [accessed 23 November 2015], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Sheahan (1862) writes: "The font is large, plain, and circular". Noted in the Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925): "The church of Swanbourne formed part of the fee granted to Woburn Abbey by Hugh Malet [according to Regesta iii, 961, this grant took place in 1140-1143] [...] The [present] building dates from the first half of the 13th century [...] The font has a circular tapering bowl which has been re-tooled, but is probably of the 13th century." The basin is bucket-shaped, plain, with a moulded underbowl; on a plain circular pedestal and round lower base. The wooden cover is flat and round, with metal decoration and small cross handle/finial; appears modern. [NB: we have no informarion on the font of the mid-12th century church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.937732,
-0.836406
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 56′ 15.83″ N,
0° 50′ 11.06″ W
UTM: 30U 648729 5756324
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-11-21 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
