Wotton Underwood / Oltone / Ottone / Woothong / Wooton / Wudotun
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Davies, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2010 by Roger Davies [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2026177] [accessed 6 January 2016]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: in the nave, looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2006 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/333338] [accessed 6 January 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 17344WOT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Wotton Underwood, Buckinghamshire, HP18 0SB
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 11 km N of Thame, 16 km NW of Aylesbury, near the border with Oxon.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Ashendon
Additional Comments: altered font? (re-tooled?) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Wotton [Underwood] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6816/wotton-underwood/] [accessed 6 January 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lipscomb (1831- ) writes: "The font is of stone, large and ancient, supported by a round column." Sheahan (1862) reports an early font in this church at the time: "the font is large, ancient, and cup-shaped." This font must have been removed (?) in the re-building of this church carried out in 1867, just a few years after Sheahan's visit [cf. infra]. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "A modern doorway to the tower on the west preserves a 12th-century lintel, enriched with diaper ornament, perhaps a relic of an earlier church on this site. [...] The chancel was probably built about 1320, but the whole fabric has been so much restored and enlarged that precise dates cannot be assigned to either chancel or nave [...] it was extensively repaired in 1800 by George Marquess of Buckingham, and again practically rebuilt in 1867" [the VCH does not mention a font in it]. English Heritage [Listing NGR: SP6883715942] (1967) notes: "circular font on banded stem, possibly medieval but much reworked".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 637624 5744889
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.837835, -1.002414
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 50′ 16.21″ N, 1° 0′ 8.69″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with moulded edges; handle; modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Lipscomb, George, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, London: J.B. Nichols, 1831-1843, vol. 1: 609
- 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. 450