Colnbrook / Colbrook / Colebroc / Colebroke

INFORMATION

FontID: 17425COL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Thomas [formerly Chapel of St. Mary]
Church Patron Saints: St. Thomas
Church Location: Vicarage Way, Colnbrook, Buckinghamshire, SL3 0JY
Country Name: England
Location: Berkshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 5 km SE of Slough, 9 km E of Windsor
Historical Region: formerly part of Bucks. -- Hundred of Stoke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1849?
Century and Period: 19th century (mid?), Victorian
Font Notes:
No entry for Colnbrook found in the Domesday survey. Sheahan (1862) notes an early chapel of 1344 here, twice re-built, and a modern church built by subscription in 1849, in which there is an octagonal font. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "Thomas Purchaceour, or Purchase, obtained a licence in 1340 to build a chapel at Colnbrook, [...] which was consecrated in 1342. (fn. 62) It is usually called the free chapel of St. Mary Colnbrook [...] The building was still in existence in 1862, [...] but has since been demolished [...] The church of St. Thomas, erected in 1849, [...] became the parish church in 1853, when Colnbrook was ecclesiastically separated from Horton"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH. [NB: presumably the font is modern, from ca. 1849 -- we have no indication as to whether there had been a font in the old chapel].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 672048 5706506

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-05-25 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