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view of church exterior - east view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The village church of St John the Baptist is unusual. It consists of two buildings: an ancient chapel of ease built in the 12th century - which includes a window depicting Oliver Cromwell and John Hampden as 'champions of liberty', and the door shown here - and a Victorian red brick church built in 1867."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerald Massey, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2009 by Gerald Massey [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1492917] [accessed 30 September 2015]

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eric Hardy, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 November 2006 by Eric Hardy [http://www.flickr.com/photos/erichardyuk/308960669/]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17316LEE
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist [old church]
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: The Village Green, The Lee, Buckinghamshire, HP16 9LZ
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 3 km NE of Great Missenden, 5 km SE of Wendower
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Aylesbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the old church, by the entranceway [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
No entry found for this Lee in the Domesday survey. Sheahan notes: "The church is a small ancient building [...] The style of architecture is Early English [...] the font is large, ancient, and plain". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 2, 1908) notes two separate churches in Lee: "The [new] church [...] was built in 1868, on a site 100 yds. or so east of the old church [...] It is constructed of brick in 13th-century style [...] All the fittings of the church are modern, including the font, which is octagonal." The other church is the old one, probably of 13th-century date, which was at the time [i.e., 1908] "used as a Sunday school room"; the VCH (ibid.) adds: "The font, which was removed when the new church was built, forty years ago, has recently been re-erected in its original position. It is old but of uncertain date." The font consists of a bucket-shaped basin raised on a narrower and short circular pedestal base, all of it plain; the basin may have been repaired from a crack around its middle, and has obvious damage at the upper rim. The wooden cover is round, flat and plain; modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.730493, -0.700264
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 43′ 49.78″ N, 0° 42′ 0.95″ W
UTM: 30U 658815 5733566

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
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.
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