Maulden / Meldone
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Mary the Virgin, Maulden. This is a far more substantial church than it seems at first sight. The tower is only quite small but it has side aisles and other additions. It also has the curious detached building seen here on the right, which is the Ailesbury family mausoleum."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 May 2006 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/164458] [accessed 18 September 2015]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font with an older cover
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view of font cover
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 17689MAU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Road, Maulden, Bedfordshire, MK45 2AU
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located 2-3 km W of Ampthill, 13 km S of Bedford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Redbornestoke
Century and Period: 13th century, Early English
Church Notes: tour of the church with images of the modern font at www.stmarysmaulden.org/tour.htm [accessed 18 September 2015]
There are five entries for Maulden [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TL0538/maulden/] [accessed 18 September 2015], none of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Bedfordshire, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The value of this church in 1291 was £4 13s. 4d., [...] and at the Dissolution £15 9s. 6d. [...] the lower part of the tower is 14th-century work"; the VCH entry does not mention a font in it. The present font, an octagonal basin with Biblical scenes on the sides, raised on a columnar base, is modern, probably Victorian. The wooden cover, however, could be significantly older than the present font; it appears to be of a fairly common 17th-century design, and may have been the cover of an earlier font; it otherwise could be a 19th-century cover based on an earlier design [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.030329,
-0.459231
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 1′ 49.18″ N,
0° 27′ 33.23″ W
UTM: 30U 674293 5767459
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material:
wood,
oak
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-10-19 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
