Aston Abbotts / Abbodes Aston / Aston Abbatis / Aston Abbats / Aston Abbots / Easton / Estone / Estuna
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2606543] [accessed 16 November 2015]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2606574] [accessed 16 November 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2011 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2606756] [accessed 16 November 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 17396AST
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Late Perpendicular / Tudor
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Church Address: Cublington Road, Aston Abbotts, Buckinghamshire HP22 4NB
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km NNE of Aylesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Cottesloe [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Aston [Abbots] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8420/aston-abbots/] [accessed 16 November 2015], but it mentions neither chleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862) notes: "the font is large and plain", without reference to its age. The Victoria County Histroy (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "The church of Aston Abbots is first mentioned in 1291 [...] The church was apparently entirely rebuilt in 1866 with the exception of the west tower, some old materials being used in the walling of the chancel and nave. The tower is probably of early 16th-century date [...] The chancel has some 14th-century features re-used [...] The font is possibly of 16th-century date and has an octagonal bowl and hollow tapering stem brought to a square with broached stops."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 653436 5749361
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.8739, -0.7711
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 52′ 26.04″ N, 0° 46′ 15.96″ 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 metal decoration and ring handle
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. 656