Little Hampden / Hambden / Hamdena / Hampden Parva / Parva Hamdene
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "15th century timber-framed porch".
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 January 2006 by David Ellis [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/102261] [accessed 24 September 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17314HAM
Church/Chapel: Little Hampden Parish Church
Church Location: Little Hampden, Buckinghamshire, HP16 9PS
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located near Great Hampden, 5 km SE of Princes Risborough
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Aylesbury [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Stone
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: wall paintings in the nave, some going back to the late13th century
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for [Great and Little] Hampden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/great-and-little-hampden/] [accessed 24 September 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862) writes: "The font is of octagonal form, and good design, but it is composed only of cement." The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The church of Little Hampden was appendant to the church of Hartwell. [...] The walling of the nave may be of the 12th century, and a carved fragment of that date is set in the chancel wall, but there is nothing in the architectural features to prove that any part of the structure is earlier than the 13th century [...] The font is of 18th-century date, with a small round basin upon a slim baluster stem". [NB: the two fonts noted by Sheahan and the VCH are obviously not the same; we have no information on the whereabouts of either of those fonts, or of the medieval font [NB: a font of cement?]]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.7236,
-0.7563
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 43′ 24.96″ N,
0° 45′ 22.68″ W
UTM: 30U 654969 5732679
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-03-31 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