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Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross in Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/bucks/churches/nether-winchendon.htm] [accessed 6 January 2016]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christopher Hilton, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 June 1997 by Christopher Hilton [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2869972] [accessed 6 January 2016]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ross & Britain Express Ltd, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph by David Ross in Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/counties/bucks/churches/nether-winchendon.htm] [accessed 6 January 2016]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 17279WIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the N side of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Barrack Hill, Nether Winchendon, Buckinghamshire, HP18 0DY
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km S of Waddesdon, 8 km W of Aylesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford [earlier dioceses: Dorchester, Lincoln]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for [Lower] Winchendon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7312/lower-winchendon/] [accessed 6 January 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lipscomb (1831- ) writes: "The font, which stands at the north side of the nave, is octagonal, large, and plain." In Sheahan (1862), after Lipscomb. The RCAHM (1912) dates this font to the 15th century. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The church was granted with the manor [...] to Nutley Abbey [...] In the 12th and 13th centuries it was described as a chapel of the church of Long Crendon. [...] The chancel and nave were rebuilt in the first half of the 14th century, but the existence of an earlier building is shown by the late 13th-century chancel arch [...] In 1891 the chancel was partially rebuilt, and the whole fabric has been restored. [...] The font, dating from the 15th century, has an octagonal bowl and a moulded base." The font is rather uncharacteristic for the time period: the basin is tub-like, albeit octagonal, the upper angles chamfered towards the rim, otherwise plain; the base is also octagonal but squat, but several mouldings around the upper end. The wooden cover is flat and plain, with a large acorn [egg-in-cup?] finial/handle; probably modern.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 642106 5741226
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.8038, -0.9389
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 48′ 13.68″ N, 0° 56′ 20.04″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. 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-, p. 247
- Lipscomb, George, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, London: J.B. Nichols, 1831-1843, vol. 1: 532
- 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. 438