Adstock / Adestoca / Adestocha / Adestok / Edestoche / Haddestock
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 December 2010 by pete-astn [www.flickr.com/photos/peetastn/5297261432] [accessed 6 January 2016]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 December 2010 by pete-astn [www.flickr.com/photos/peetastn/5297261432] [accessed 6 January 2016]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: EXT SE digital photograph taken 21 October 2010 by Cameraman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2316027] [accessed 6 January 2016]
FONT digital photograph taken 27 December 2010 by pete-astn [www.flickr.com/photos/peetastn/5297261432] [accessed 6 January 2016] OK PEte
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cameraman, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 October 2010 by Cameraman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2316027] [accessed 6 January 2016]
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view of font and cover - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Austin, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 December 2010 by pete-astn [www.flickr.com/photos/peetastn/5297261432] [accessed 6 January 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17300ADS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Cecilia the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Cecilia [aka Caecelia, Cecelia]
Church Location: Church End, Adstock, Buckinghamshire, MK18 2HY
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 4 km NW of Winslow, 5 km SE of Buckingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Mow [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Buckingham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
There is an entry for Adestock [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7330/adstock/] [accessed 6 January 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862) reports the church here as "an ancient edifice [...] The octagonal font is large and ancient". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The church of Adstock, together with a carucate of land, formed part of the grant of William Avenel to the Abbot and convent of St. Mary de Pre, Leicester. [...] The nave walls, up to the sills of the windows, belong to a 12th-century church, the chancel of which was rebuilt about 1330, when the north porch was added. The upper part of the nave walls was taken down and erected anew late in the 15th century, the date of the addition of the tower. The building was restored throughout in 1875 [...] The font is of the 15th century and is octagonal with panelled sides to the bowl." The wooden font-cover is modern, probably 19th-century. [NB: the fabric of the church goes back to the 12th century, but we have no information on its earlier font]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.9648,
-0.931
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 57′ 53.28″ N,
0° 55′ 51.6″ W
UTM: 30U 642142 5759145
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-03-28 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
