Shilton nr. Oxford

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B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Via Crucis - Christ led to Golgotha

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross in Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=5085] [accessed 8 August 2013]

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B02: New Testament - Passion of Christ - flagellation - detail

Scene Description: probably 14th-century recut on the plain Norman basin

Image Source: digital photograph in Flickr, with original from Oxfordshire Church Illustrations [http://flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/316988898/] [accessed 1 August 2007]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

B03: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist

Scene Description: seen here on the right panel

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross in Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=5085] [accessed 8 August 2013]

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B04: Christ - Christ in Majesty - angel holding cross - angel holding ring

Scene Description: is the angel on the left holding Instruments of the Passion? a crown of thorns, instead?

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross in Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=5085] [accessed 8 August 2013]

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BF01: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 1 key

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross in Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=5085] [accessed 8 August 2013]

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BF02: human figure - standing

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross in Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=5085] [accessed 8 August 2013]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross in Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=5085] [accessed 8 August 2013]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: around the upper rim sides; probably 14th-century recut of the plain Norman basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross in Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=5085] [accessed 8 August 2013]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: probably 14th-century recut of the plain Norman basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross in Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=5085] [accessed 8 August 2013]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the outer colonnettes of the base, top and bottom

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David Ross in Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=5085] [accessed 8 August 2013]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 00270SHI

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin] - 14th century [composite font], Norman [altered]

Church / Chapel Name: Church of the Holy Rood

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Cross

Church Address: Church Lane, Shilton, Oxfordshire, OX18 4AE

Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off the B4020, just NW of Carterton, 25 km W of Oxford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford [formerly Lincoln]

Historical Region: Hundred of Faringdon [Hundred of Bamton?]

Additional Comments: recycled font / re-cut / re-carved font: plain Norman basin recut and mounted in the 14th century -- a plain font becomes figured -- MUST USE

Font Notes: Click to view

The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font very fine N[orman], square, with sculptures of the Passion on each side; the basin is supported by a square central shaft, with four detached round shafts." Noted in Gardner's Gazetteer (1852): "The ancient square-shaped font is adorned with curiously carved images." Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as "a font of which the bowl may well have been originally a plain, unmounted, rectangular, Norman font", and suggests that the original font was later "covered with fourteenth century carving, and set on supports with fourteenth century mouldings". Noted in Sherwood and Pevsner (1974): "Font. Square, C14, with rustic carvings of scenes from the Passion on all four sides and the Evangelists under canopies in the corners." The upper rim sides appear ornamented with foliage (?) motif; each corner of the basin is ornamented with a standing human figure in a Gothic arch [NB: although Sherwood and Pevsner -cf. supra- identify them as the four Evangelists, there appear to be no symbols to support their claim; if anything, one of the figures appears to hold up something that could be construed as a key]; the sides themselves show representations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ; the base consists of a broad square central shaft, plain, and four round corner colonnettes with moulded bases and capitals (due to the height of the basin, the columns of the base are quite short). Noted with a series of recent illustrations in Flickr, with original from Oxfordshire Church Illustrations [http://flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos] [accessed 10 September 2007]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross, of Britain Express [www.britainexpress.com] for his photographs of this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 595608 5736671

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.77274, -1.614298

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 46′ 21.86″ N, 1° 36′ 51.47″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: square, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: round, flat and plain with knob handle; modern

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 43, 97, 227 and ill. on p. 93
Crossley, Frederick Herbert, English Church Craftsmanship: an Introduction to the Work of the Mediaval Period and Some Account of Later Developments, London: B.T. Batsford, 1941, p. 38
Gardner, Robert, History, gazetteer and directory of the County of Oxford, comprising [...], Peterborough: Printed and published by Robert Gardner, 1852, [www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 30 June 2007]
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850, [unpaged -- entry 199] / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=maikb1i3wSUC&pg=PT144&lpg=PT144&dq=longcot+church+font&source=web&ots=p3k5tJJE6J&sig=KYjkm8H5wOoAuH7BvnLp7JqMPus&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA17,M1] [accessed 31 December 2008]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 755