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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 November 2007 by Malcolm Gould [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Bartholomew%27s_Church,_Lower_Basildon] [accesed 7 December 2011]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: INT W digital photograph taken 9 May 2010 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1890699] [accessed 30 April 2015] INT E digital photograph taken 9 May 2010 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1890681] [accessed 30 April 2015] MOD FONT NO PERMIT digital photograph taken 4 July 2013 by Rex Harris [www.flickr.com/photos/sheepdog_rex/9213307325/] [accessed 30 April 2015]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2010 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1890681] [accessed 30 April 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the top of the modern font and cover showing in the bank of benches on the left [south] side, at the far back [west]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2010 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1890699] [accessed 30 April 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2013 by Rex Harris [www.flickr.com/photos/sheepdog_rex/9213307325/] [accessed 30 April 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17794BAS

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew [redundant]

Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew

Church Location: Basildon, West Berkshire RG8 9NJ

Country Name: England

Location: Berkshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located 11 km NW of Reading, 32 km from Oxford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Slotisdon [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Moreton

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

Church Notes: Church now [2011] in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Basildon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU6078/basildon/] [accessed 30 April 2015] that reports two churches in it; one of which is believed to be that of Ashampstead. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 3, 1923) notes: "At the Survey [Domesday, 1086] two priests held two churches [...] the second being doubtless at Ashampstead. [...] The nave is the oldest part of the present building, and appears to have belonged to an early 13th-century church, the chancel of which was rebuilt about the year 1280, while the tower was added in the 18th century. In 1875–6 the church was completely restored [...] The registers are complete from 1538." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SU6116579266], however, mentions a "C15 octagonal stone font with quatrefoil panelled sides"; there is indeed an octagonal font with quatrefoiled panels in this church but it is modern, probably from the late-19th century restoration of this church noted above. [NB: we have no information on the font of the Domesday-time church here]. St. Stephen's, in nearby Upper Basildon, is a modern church of the 1960s.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.509237, -1.119982

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 30′ 33.25″ N, 1° 7′ 11.93″ W

UTM: 30U 630466 5708132

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2015-04-30 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.