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view of church exterior - south porch and tower
view of church exterior - southeast view
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17313RAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Radnage Lane, Radnage, Buckinghamshire, HP14 4DU
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 9 km WNW of High Wycombe
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Desborough
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 10th - 11th century / 17th century, Pre-Conquest? / Restoration?
Church Notes: church said to have been built by the Templars -- it was used as a set in 'A month in the country'
Font Notes:
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No entry for Radnage found in the Domesday survey. There is no mention of a font in this church in Sheahan (1862). The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "The building, which is of unusual plan, the central tower being narrower than either the chancel or nave, dates from the opening years of the 13th century [...] The font is probably of the 17th century; it is now covered with plaster and paint and has a cover with a strap hinge." The British Listed Buildings database entry [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-46611-church-of-st-mary-radnage] [accessed 17 October 2011], however, reports: "Rough medieval font". [NB: the font here is of an old design, examples of which have been attributed to the pre-Conquest period; it is doubtful that this font be of that period; there is no record in Domesday of such an early church here [NB: although that is not evidence of the church not being there]. Is it 17th-century font as claimed in the VCH? -- we have no information on the medieval font of this curch].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.674381, -0.864715
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 40′ 27.77″ N, 0° 51′ 52.97″ W
UTM: 30U 647642 5726982
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-03-31 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.