Granborough / Granborowe / Grandborough / Greenborough / Greenburgh / Greneborewe / Greneburga / Greneburne / Grenesberga / Grenesberge / Grenesbyri
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view of font and cover - northwest side
Scene Description: a re-tooled old basin on a new base? a new font? the clue to its age would probably be on the inside of the basin well [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 September 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2637490] [accessed 3 December 2015]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 September 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2637490] [accessed 3 December 2015]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bikeboy, 2014
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 August 2014 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4136839] [accessed 3 December 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rob Farrow, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 November 2007 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/606027] [accessed 3 December 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the font and cover by the south pillar of the chancel arch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2637490] [accessed 3 December 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 17334GRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century / 17th century, Medieval? / Restoration?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the S pillar of the chancel arch
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the baptist
Church Address: 3 Marston Road, Granborough, Buckinghamshire MK18 3NT
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A413, 2.5 km S of Winslow, 13 km N of Aylesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Waddeson [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Ashendon
Additional Comments: altered font? (is the present font a re-tooled old basin on a new base? or is it a modern font?)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Granborough [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP7625/granborough/] [accessed 3 December 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lipscomb (1831- ) notes: "The font is ancient, with a circular bason on a short round column." In Sheaham (1862), after Lipscomb. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a Norman font. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The nave, dating from early in the 14th century, is the oldest part of the church [...] The church of Grandborough was held with the manor by the abbey of St. Albans. In 1291 it is mentioned as a chapel appurtenant to the church of Winslow"; there is no mention of a font in it. [NB: unless this is the font noted as Norman in Cox & Harvey (1907), we have no information on the font from the medieval church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 645480 5754029
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.917969, -0.884609
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 55′ 4.69″ N, 0° 53′ 4.59″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 187
- Lipscomb, George, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, London: J.B. Nichols, 1831-1843, vol. 1: 251
- 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, p. 382