Billington nr. Leighton Buzzard / Billendon / Billesdon / Billyndon / Bylindon
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: EXT SW digital photograph taken 1 September 2015 by Mr Biz [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3109439] [accessed 22 September 2015]
INT E digital photograph taken in 2004 by Kevin Quick [www.leighton-linslade.com/images/photos2/billington_stmichael7.jpg] [accessed 22 September 2015] NO PERMIT
FONT+COVER digital photograph taken in 2004 by Kevin Quick [www.leighton-linslade.com/images/photos2/billington_stmichael9.jpg] [accessed 22 September 2015] NO PERMIT
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 September 2015 by Mr Biz [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3109439] [accessed 22 September 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![the font is visible at the far [west] end, right [north] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: the font is visible at the far [west] end, right [north] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kevin Quick, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Kevin Quick [www.leighton-linslade.com/images/photos2/billington_stmichael7.jpg] [accessed 22 September 2015]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kevin Quick, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Kevin Quick [www.leighton-linslade.com/images/photos2/billington_stmichael9.jpg] [accessed 22 September 2015]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 17695BIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels
Church Location: Church Turn, Billington, Central Bedfordshire LU7 9BJ
Country Name: England
Location: Bedfordshire, East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A4746, SE of Leighton Buzzard
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans
Historical Region: Hundred of Manshead
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church Notes: originally a chapel of ease to Leighton Buzzard
Font Notes:
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No individual entry found for Billington in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Bedford, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The plan of the church dates from the latter part of the 13th century, and of that date are the arch of the west window of the nave and the piscina in the chancel, the chancel itself having been rebuilt in modern times. [...] The octagonal font is 15th-century work of plain design."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.893399, -0.634969
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 53′ 36.23″ N, 0° 38′ 5.89″ W
UTM: 30U 662735 5751825
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-10-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.