Little Horwood / Harwood Parva / Hereworde / Horwood Parva / Horwude / Horwudu / Parva Herewode / Parva Horewode
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17410HOR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: 2 Church Street, Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire, MK17 0PF
Country Name: England
Location: Buckinghamshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 3 km NE of Winslow, 6-7 km ESE of Buckingham
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Mursley [in Domesday]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Church Notes: interesting mural paintings of the Seven Deadly Sins (ca. 1500) in this church [www.paintedchurch.org/lthor7ds.htm]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for [Great and Little] Horwood [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [www.domesdaymap.co.uk/place/XX0000/great-and-little-horwood/] [accessed 8 November 2014], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862) reports: "the font is small and plain", and may have been already a replacement of the medieval font in this church [cf. infra]. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) writes: "The church of Little Horwood was a chapel to the church of Winslow in 1291 [...] From the 16th century, however, it always appears as an independent church, [...] and was assessed separately in 1535 [...] The church of St. Nicholas [...] was built about 1200, and originally consisted of a chancel and nave with a south aisle. During the 14th century the chancel was probably rebuilt [...] The south aisle was possibly rebuilt about 1400, and towards the end of the 15th century the west tower was added [...] The church was restored in 1830 [...] and was again repaired in 1889"; there is no mention of any font in it. [NB: the present font at St. Nicholas' is modern but does not seem to match Sheahan's description either; we have no information on the medieval font here]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.970676,
-0.849237
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 58′ 14.44″ N,
0° 50′ 57.25″ W
UTM: 30U 647739 5759961
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-05-16 00:00:00. 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