Burford nr. Leominster / Bureford

Results: 58 records

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B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist

Scene Description: St. Mary, on the left and St. John the Evangelist on the right side of the Cross

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

B02: Apostle or saint - St. John the Baptist - with lamb

Scene Description: St. John holding a lamb, on the south side of font, to the left of the Crucifixion

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

B03: Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria - with wheel

Scene Description: on the south side, to the left of John the Baptist

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

B04: Apostle or saint - St. Margaret of Antioch? - with dragon? - with staff or spear?

Scene Description: a/p suggested identification in David Oakey [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

B05: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew - with his cross

Scene Description: on the west side of the font, to the left of a possible St. Margaret

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

B06: Apostle or saint - unidentified

Scene Description: one suggestion identifies this figure as St. Lawrence, but where are the attibutes? Appears to be monk/cleric-like [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

B07: Apostle or saint - St. Gregory?

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes] on the north side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

B08: design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - cusped

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

B09: design element - architectural - arcade - polylobed arches - crocketed arches

Scene Description: all cinquefoil except the one housing the Crucifixion, which appears to have seven lobes

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

BBU01: human figure - male - head - bearded - 7?

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arches, except the main arch of the Crucifixion, which appears to have a crown or floral finial

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

BBU02: design element - motifs - foliage?

Scene Description: a crown of foliage? above the Crucifixion scene

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

R01: design element - motifs - ball

Scene Description: several, on the rim side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

inscription

Scene Description: the broad lip of the lead lining with the inscription [cf. InscriptionArea for text]

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Detail of the Crucifixion scene: Mary

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: detail of the Crucifixion scene: Christ on the cross

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: detail of the Crucifixion scene: John

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: bottom of the panel with figure tentatively identified as St. Margaret of Antioch: it is clearly an ofid but, was it intended to represent the dragon?

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of basin - upper view - detail

Scene Description: the broad lip of the lead lining with the inscription [cf. InscriptionArea for text]

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church exterior - south view - tower

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church exterior - south view - tower

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church exterior - south view - tower - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church exterior - south view - tower - window

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church exterior - southeast view - tower

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Scene Description: left side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Scene Description: left side: image rotated 90 degrees to the right

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Scene Description: right side of the portal: image rotated 90 degrees to the left

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church exterior - west tower

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church interior - tower - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2007 by BSI

view of church interior - tower - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church interior - tower - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church interior - tower - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of church interior - tower - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of font

Image Source: digital image of an iIllustration in Daubeny (1921)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a Frederick Mackenzie's copper engraving for Skelton's 1823 book 'Antiquities of Oxfordshire' [Sanders of Oxford print catalogue]

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font - northeast side

Scene Description: Crucifixion on the left -- possible St. Gregory on the right

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of font - northwest side

Scene Description: unidentified figure on the left -- St. Andrew on the right

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of font - side 1

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of font - side 2

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of font - side 3

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view of font - side 4

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of font - side 5

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of font - side 6

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of font - side 7

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of font - south side

Scene Description: a possible St. Margaret of Antioch on the left -- St. Catherine of Alexandria in the centre -- St. John the Baptist on the right

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of font - southwest side

Scene Description: a possible St. Margaret of Antioch on the left -- St. Catherine of Alexandria on the right

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 July 1998 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

view of font cover

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2, 2007

INFORMATION

FontID: 00346BUR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Burford OX18 4RZ, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the A40, 33 km W of Oxford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Bampton [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, NW corner

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only] [re-cut: 14th century], Medieval / composite

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font and his help in documenting this font]

Church Notes: 12thC [ca. 1125?] church; modified 15thC (wool church ca. 1485) / restored 19thC -- [cf. FontNotes about the event involving some "levellers" or "diggers" which took place in this church during the Civil War]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Burford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP2512/burford/] [accessed 2 February 2023]; it mentions neither cleriic nor church in it. The font here is illustrated by Frederick Mackenzie (1788-1854) in a copper engraving for Skelton's 1823 book 'Antiquities of Oxfordshire'. Noted in Tymms (1834). Moule (1837) describes this font as hexagonal. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "fine circular font [...] it appears to be of D[ecorated] date." Murray (1882) notes the font and "the words 'Anthonye Sedley, 1649, prisner' rudely carved on the font" [cf. infra]. Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911 [http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 30 June 2007] describes it as 'a Decorated work" [i.e., of the Decorate or 14th-century English Gothic period]. Noted as a Late Decorated font with an illustration in Daubeny (1921). Reported in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "In the nave is an ancient font of cylindrical form, ornamented with a rude sculpture of the Crucifixion." Described and illustrated in Bond (1908).as a 14th-century monolithic font. Tyrrell-Green (1928) notes: "figures stand in shallow panels with crocketed ogee heads, one of the panels containing the Crucifixion wit attendant figures of our Lady and St. John." Described in Hutton (!957) as a 14th-century font on which a graffito reads: "Anthony Sedley, 1649, prisner." Gardner (1852) has: "ANTHONYE SEDLEY, 1649, PRISNER" [www.genoot.com/engl/oxf/b/burford/gardner.html] [accessed 6 May 2005]. Hutton (ibid.) explains that Sedley was one of Cromwell's Levellers "who were imprisoned by him for refusing to fight the Irish; three were shot in the churchyard after three days, watched by the rest (including Sedley) from the roof." Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974). The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP2531312405] notes: "Parish Church. C12 (? earlier origins) developed to present complex plan by late C15. Heavily restored by Street in 1870 […] excellent font with Rood". On-site notes: considerable damage evident on the upper rim, some covered by the overlap of the lead-lining of the basin well; the E side of the font shows a Crucifixion scene with Mary and St. John; on the S side St. John the Baptist with lamb, St. Catherine with wheel and, perhaps, St. Margaret; on the W side St. Andrew with the saltire cross; on the N side perhaps St. Lawrence and St. Gregory, both tentative identifications [as identified in David Oakey's 'Church Details', in ox18.myhosting.net/burfordchurchplan.htm].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.8096, -1.6342

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 48′ 34.56″ N, 1° 38′ 3.12″ W

UTM: 30U 594158 5740744

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: cylindrical (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 10-19 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 56 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 76-86 cm* (very irregular)

Basin Depth: 35 cm*

Basin Total Height: 83 cm*

Height of Base: 23 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 106 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 123 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: English

Inscription Notes: scratched on the lead of the font rather than inscribed [cf. Font notes for details]

Inscription Location: scratched on the lead lining

Inscription Text: "ANTHONY SEDLEY, 1649, PRISNER" [or "ANTHONYE SEDLEY, 1649, PRISNER"]

Inscription Source: Hutton (1957: 64); Gardner (1852)

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: yes; counterweight

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

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

Daubeny, Ulric, Ancient Cotswold Churches, Cheltenham: J. Burrow, 1921

Gardner, Robert, History, gazetteer and directory of the County of Oxford, comprising [...], Peterborough: Printed and published by Robert Gardner, 1852

Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976

Jenkins, Simon, England's Thousand Best Churches, London and New York: Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 1999 [2000 rev. printing]

Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831

Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2]

Murray, John [the firm], Handbook for travellers in Berks. Bucks and Oxfordshire, including a [...], London: John Murray, 1882

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974

Skelton, Joseph, Skelton's engraved illustrations of the principal antiquities of Oxfordshire, from the original drawings of F. Mackenzie, Oxford: J. Skelton, 1823

Tymms, Samuel, Family Topographer, being a compendious account of the antient and present state of the counties of England: vol. IV, Oxford circuit, London: Nichols & Son, 1834

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928