Cublington / Cobelintone / Coblincote / Coblingote / Colblyngton
INFORMATION
Font ID: 17402CUB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: High Street, Cublington, Buckinghamshire -- LU7 0LQ
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 10 km NNE of Aylesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Cottesloe [in Domesday
Additional Comments: disappeared font(s)? ( a late-11thC (?); and a Perpendicular font (?))
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Cublington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8322/cublington/] [accessed 16 November 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862) cites Lipscomb (1832-1843): "The Church (St Nicholas) [...] 'was removed from the eastern part of the village about the year 1400, to its present situation, a furlong or more eastward", but does not mention a font in it. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "Hugh the son of Gozelin bestowed Cublington Church upon Dunstable Priory, probably towards the end of the 11th century [...] A former church is said to have stood on a site to the westward, where traces of an inclosure can still be seen [...] The present building dates from the early part of the 15th century"; there is no mention of a font in it. The British Listed Buildings database [www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk] reports a 19th-century font in the present church [NB: we have no information on the font(s) from the earlier church].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 652822 5751424
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. 660