Ilmer / Hilmer / Hilmere / Illmire / Ilmere / Imere / Ylemere / Ymmere
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ilmer church from the north-east. [...] The church has Norman origins, but the shingled spire dates from late Victorian times."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stefan Czapski, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2014 by Stefan Czapski [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4141357] [accessed 4 December 2015]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St.Peters Church, Ilmer, the original building was erected in the Norman period, traces of which can still be seen in the old doorways of the Nave. Rebuilt in perpendicular style around 1350. Restored in 1860. Spire restored in 1978."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cered, 2015
Image Source: photograph taken 27 October 1998 by Cered [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/42825] [accessed 4 December 2015]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Neil Baldwin, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 14 June 2014 by Neil Baldwin [www.flickr.com/photos/treecreeper/14847288619/] [accessed 4 December 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17310ILM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Ilmer, Buckinghamshire, HP27 9RA
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 4-5 km NW of Princes Risborough, 15 km SW of Aylesbury, near the Oxon border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Ixhill [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Ashendo
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Date: ca. 1350?
Century and Period: 14th century (mid?) [re-cut], Decorated [altered]
There is an entry for Ilmer [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7605/ilmer/] [accessed 4 December 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lipscomb (1831- ) writes: "The font is ancient and octagonal, placed near the west end of the nave." Sheahan (1862) writes: "The Church (St. Peter) is a small but interesting structure-- one of the oldest extant in the Diocese of Oxford. The original building [...] was erected in the Norman period; but it appears to have been in great part rebuilt in the old Perpendicular style, about the year 1350. It contains a curious rood screen and an octagonal stone font of that age". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The earliest part of the building is the nave, which dates from the 12th century [...] The font is of mediaeval date, but the sides of its plain octagonal bowl have been recut; the oak cover is of the 17th century." The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain re-cut sides, raised on a plain octagonal pedestal base. The oak cover has four scroll ribs around a centre pivot, all on a flat octagonal base.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.7429,
-0.8876
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 44′ 34.44″ N,
0° 53′ 15.36″ W
UTM: 30U 645839 5734555
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material:
wood,
oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-03-30 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Lipscomb, George, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, London: J.B. Nichols, 1831-1843
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
