Chesham / Cæstæleshamm / Caestreham / Cestreham

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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's, Chesham. The earliest part of the church are C12. The nave and aisles are C13 and the tower C14. The church was restored Giles Gilbert Scott 1868-9."
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
INFORMATION
FontID: 17153CHE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 4 Bury Lane, Chesham, Buckinghamshire HP5 1JD
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 5 km N of Amersham, 18 km SE of Aylesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford [formerly in the diocese of Lincoln]
Historical Region: Hundred of Burnham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW angle of the S transept
Date: ca. 1330?
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There are five entries for Chesham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9501/chesham/] [accessed 27 October 2015], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. Sheahan (1862) dates the "venerable cruciform structure" of this church to the 14th century, in the Perpendicular style, but does not mention the font in it. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "A large cruciform church existed here in the 12th century [...] The whole fabric was restored in 1868–9 by G. G. Scott [...] The font is modern". The RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912) notes a holy-water stoup "on S.W. angle of S. transept" [NB: the transept itself is dated ca. 1330; the RCAHM (ibid.) notes some remains of the mid-12th century church here, as well as the re-buildings in the 13th and 14th centuries, but we have no information on the original baptismal font of the medieval church; the present font dates from the late-1860s renovation of the church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.704,
-0.617
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 42′ 14.4″ N,
0° 37′ 1.2″ W
UTM: 30U 664660 5730805
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-05-24 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of the historical monuments in Buckinghamshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1912-
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