Great Woolstone / Great Woolston / Great Woulstone / Ulsiestone / Wolston / Wolleston / Woolston Magna / Woolstone / Wulsistone

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2006 by Mr Biz [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/208547] [accessed 8 March 2016]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 17390WOO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Address: Mill Lane, Woolstone, Milton Keynes MK15 0AJ -- Tel.: +44 1908 667611
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 5 km N of Fenny Stratford, 6 km S of Newport Pagnell
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Seckley [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Newport
Additional Comments: moved font: returned font -- disappeared font?
Font Notes:
There is an entry for [Great] Woolstone [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8738/great-woolstone/] [accessed 8 March 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862) wrote: "The Church [...] was rebuilt about 25 years ago [...] The font is of Norman design, and was brought here from the ancient Church of St. Cuthbert, in the town of Bedford." [NB: the font therefore may have been moved into Gt. Woolston ca. 1837?]. The font was back in Bedford St. Cuthbert's by the time of the Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) entry: "The small church of the Holy Trinity [...] dates from 1839, but stands on the site of an ancient structure, to which reference is found early in the 13th century [...] The font, which was removed from the old church of St. Cuthbert, Bedford, has a 12th-century round bowl, the face of which is relieved by four engaged shafts with scalloped capitals." Pevsner (1968) notes: "Font. Returned from Great Woolston. With four shafts in the corners of the rounded bowl."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 655975 5768407
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.0443, -0.725593
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 2′ 39.48″ N, 0° 43′ 32.14″ W

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968, p. 49
  • 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. 651