Middle Claydon / Claindone / Claydon Middle / Cliandone / Little Claydon
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17333CLA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Church Location: Middle Claydon, Buckinghamshire MK18 2EY
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located between East Botolph and Steeple Claydon, 6 WSW of Winslow, 10 km E of Buckingham, 13 NNE of Aylesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Waddesdon [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Ashendon
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1306?
Century and Period: 14th century (early?), Decorated
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for [Middle] Claydon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7225/middle-claydon/] [accessed 3 December 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lipscomb (1831- ) writes: "The font under the gallery at the west end is of Coade's artificial stone, vase-shaped, on a pedestal modelled from a Grecian altar, inscribed: "The gift of the Rector, 1809." and with the arms of Wright impaling Calvert." Sheahan (1862) writes: "The nave of the church is in the very Early Decorated style", but does not mention a font in it. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes that the earliest parts of the church date to ca. 1300, but much of the rest is 15th- and 16th-century. The VCH does not mention the font either. The medieval font must have been lost (?) by Sheahan's time. The present marble font is modern. [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of the font from the original church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.9215,
-0.955919
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 55′ 17.4″ N,
0° 57′ 21.31″ W
UTM: 30U 640565 5754281
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-04-06 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