Creslow / Cærsehlaw / Carselouwe / Christlow / Cresselai [Domesday] / Cresselowe / Crestlow / Crissellow / Cristlow / Kercelawe / Kerselawe / Kerseloghe / Kyrslowe

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view of church exterior - south view

although disused since Elizabethan times, used as a dovecot and later as a coach-house, the identity of the old church, seen here on the right, is difficult to hide [cf. FontNotes]
Scene Description: although disused since Elizabethan times, used as a dovecot and later as a coach-house, the identity of the old church, seen here on the right, is difficult to hide [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rob Farrow, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2006 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/234817] [accessed 16 November 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior in context

Source caption: "Creslow Chapel. Now incorporated as part of the Manor." [disused since Elizabethan times -- cf. FontNotes] EXT S digital photograph taken 7 September 2006 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/234817] [accessed 16 November 2015] [disused since Elizabethan times -- cf. FontNotes]
Scene Description: Source caption: "Creslow Chapel. Now incorporated as part of the Manor." [disused since Elizabethan times -- cf. FontNotes] EXT S digital photograph taken 7 September 2006 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/234817] [accessed 16 November 2015] [disused since Elizabethan times -- cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mr Biz, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2008 by Mr Biz [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/891128] [accessed 16 November 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

INFORMATION

Font ID: 17417CRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church [disused in the late-16th century; in ruins by 1850s]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located near Whitchurch, 10 km N of Aylesbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Cottesloe [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the late-12thC church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Creslow [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP8121/creslow/] [accessed 16 November 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lipscomb (1847) records the first rector of the Creslow church, William de Dingel, in 1239, and its last, Thomas Davies, in 1554. Sheahan (1862) suggests a Transition date for the surviving doorway of the remaining building, "the nave of which is now used as a coach-house". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "Adjoining the manor-house on the north-west is the nave of the old parish church [...] It dates probably from the latter part of the 12th century, but was altered in the 15th century. During Elizabeth's reign services ceased to be performed, [...] and in 1786 it was used as a dovecot. [...] Shortly afterwards it was adapted to serve its present purpose as a coach-house by the insertion of partition walls and upper floors, and by the rearrangement of the various openings." [NB: we have no information on the whereabouts of its baptismal font].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 649864 5750928
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.888949, -0.822263
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 53′ 20.21″ N, 0° 49′ 20.15″ W

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Lipscomb, George, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, London: J.B. Nichols, 1831-1843
  • 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. 777ff