Milton Bryan / Middeltone / Mildentone / Milton Bryant / Mydelton

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design element - architectural - buttress - 4

Image Source: digital photograph in the Bedford County Council page [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/MiltonBryan/MiltonBryanChurchRepairsAndAdditions.aspx] [accessed 22 September 2015]

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design element - motifs - rib - 4

Scene Description: they become buttreses on the pedestal base

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 Jamuary 2008 by Paul Buckingham [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1675344] [accessed 22 September 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17696MIL

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Milton Bryan, Central Bedfordshire MK17 9HR

Country Name: England

Location: Bedfordshire, East

Directions to Site: Located off the A4012, 4 km SE of Woburn, near Leighton Buzzard

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Albans [formerly in the diocese of Lincoln]

Historical Region: Hundred of Manshead

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Milton [Bryan] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP9730/milton-bryan/] [accessed 22 September 2015], neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Victoria County History (Bedfordshire, vol. 3, 1912) notes: "The church of Milton Bryant was granted by Robert son of Bryan to Merton Priory shortly after its foundation, in the reign of Henry II [1184-1189] [...] Near the entrance to the south transept is an interesting and early coffin-lid, probably of the 10th or 11th century, discovered when excavating for the tower foundations. [...] In the south wall of the nave are two small round-headed 12th-century windows [...] The font is circular, dating from the 12th century, with four rough pilasters on a modern pedestal." The CRSBI (2015) cautiously remarks: "VCH suggests that the plain font may be 12thc." The 'Milton Bryan Church Repairs and Additions' page in the Bedford County Council site [www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/MiltonBryan/MiltonBryanChurchRepairsAndAdditions.aspx] [accessed 22 September 2015] reproduces notes from an article on Milton Bryan which appeared on 5th July 1845 in the Northampton Mercury ["WA" was a pseudonym for Woburn Abbey librarian John Martin]; it notes: "The font is in its proper situation, but it is unfortunately painted."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.9672, -0.5879

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 58′ 1.92″ N, 0° 35′ 16.44″ W

UTM: 30U 665701 5760138

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-10-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2015-09-22 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.