Haddenham No. 3 / Hedenham / Hedreham / Hedrehan / Nedreham

INFORMATION

Font ID: 17176HAD

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval

Church / Chapel Name: [origin unknown]

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located 3 km NE of Thame, 9 km SW of Aylesbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Stone

Additional Comments: disused font? / re-cycled font? now a flower vase in the garden of a private house

Font Notes: Click to view

The RCAHM (Buckinghamshire, 1912- ) has an entry on a secular building of this village, Dove House, where, "In the garden is an octagonal bowl, apparently part of a font, now used as a flower vase". [cf. Index entry for Haddenham No.1 for the medieval baptismal font in use in this church]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 643053 5736991

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), An inventory of the historical monuments in Buckinghamshire, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1912-, vol. 1: 182