Ravenstone nr. Newport Pagnell / Raunston / Raveneston / Ravenstione / Ravenston / Rowenstone

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Results: 6 records

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view of font

Image Source: edited detail of a photograph taken in 1995 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3265968] [accessed 24 February 2016]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: photograph taken in 1995 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3265968] [accessed 24 February 2016]

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - columns with capitals

Scene Description: wide arches; very shallow carving

Image Source: edited detail of a photograph taken in 1995 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3265968] [accessed 24 February 2016]

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design element - motifs - trefoil

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arcade

Image Source: edited detail of a photograph taken in 1995 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3265968] [accessed 24 February 2016]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Kokai [www.yourlocalweb.co.uk/buckinghamshire/ravenstone/pictures/]

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design element - motifs - volute - 4?

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles on the upper base end

Image Source: edited detail of a photograph taken in 1995 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3265968] [accessed 24 February 2016]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 17367RAV

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Early English

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints

Church Address: 7 N End, Ravenstone, Milton Keynes MK46 5AN

Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located 5 km WSW of Olney, 8 km NNW of Newport Pagnell, near the border with Nhants.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Bunsty [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Newport

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 11thC-12thC church?)

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for this Ravenstone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8550/ravenstone/] [accessed 24 February 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862) writes: "an ancient edifice [...] built probably in the 12th century [...] very Early English [...] The font is a large cylindrical basin, externaly ornamented with a series of rude arches having trefoil heads". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "Some herring-bone rubble in the west wall of the nave indicates the former existence of an 11th-century church [...] The early 13th-century font has a tapering circular bowl carved with trefoiled arcading having quatrefoils in the spandrels; the plain circular base has four volute-like reeded projections near the top, probably intended for foliage. The oak cover is a tall plain pyramid with turned top, and dates from the 17th century."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 653314 5780073

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.149853, -0.759122

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 8′ 59.47″ N, 0° 45′ 32.84″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. 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, p. 593