Turweston / Tereweston / Thurneston / Tower Weston / Turnestone / Turson / Turston / Turveston / Turvestone

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: around the upper rim of the disappeared 12thC font here [cf. FontNotes]

view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary's, Turweston. A tower with a triangular cap is a feature of many North Buckinghamshire and, particularly, Northamptonshire churches."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew Smith, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2006 by Andrew Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/143152] [accessed 28 January 2016]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Mary's church, Turweston. A largely Victorian exterior hides a much older interior."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Thacker, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2015 by Jonathan Thacker [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4686784] [accessed 28 January 2016]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Underhill / Alamy Stock Photo, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 January 2013 by Colin Underhill [www.alamy.com/stock-photo-st-mary`s-church-turweston-buckinghamshire-england-uk-52809166.html] [accessed 28 January, 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17329TUR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: 1 Main Street, Turweston, Buckinghamshire NN13 5JU
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located just E of Brackley, near the borders with Nhants and Oxon.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Stotfold [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Buckingham]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
There is an entry for Turweston [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6037/turweston/] [accessed 28 January 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862) describes the font at the time: "The font is plain, except that it has a band of cable moulding round the upper rim." The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "This church dates from the 12th century", but a modern font in it, which it shows located in the south aisle, just west of the south entranceway. [NB: the earlier font, the one reported in Sheahan, is reported now in the parish church at Syresham, Nhants [source: Historic England Listing NGR: SP6309041964] [cf. BSI entry for Syresham]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.0344, -1.1268
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 2′ 3.84″ N, 1° 7′ 36.48″ W
UTM: 30U 628492 5766520

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-04-05 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