Bradenham / Bradeham
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2007 by Sealman [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bradenham_Church.JPG] [accesed 9 December 2011]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 17431BRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1100?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Botolph
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Botulph [aka St. Botolph, Botolph of Thorney, Botulf]
Church Address: The Green, Bradenham Woods Lane, Bradenham, Buckinghamshire, HP14 4HF
Site Location: Buckinghamshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km NW of High Wycombe
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Desborough
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the ca.1100 church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Bradenham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU8297/bradenham/] [accessed 30 September 2015], nut it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sheahan (1862) remarks on the arch above the south doorway of this church: "late Saxon or early Norman workmanship", but does not mention a baptismal font in this church. The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 3, 1925) notes: "The earliest part of the church is the nave, built probably about 1100", and reports that the baptism registers start in 1627, but does not mention a font either. [NB: the church was restored in the 1860s by G.E. Street, who supplied the present font; we have no information on the medieval font here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 651853 5726239
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.666587, -0.804179
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 39′ 59.71″ N, 0° 48′ 15.04″ W
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. 881