Oxenhall / Horsenehal

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Christ? - right hand raised in benediction

Scene Description: one of the figures in the arcade; it appears to be Christ

Image Source: digtal photograph taken by John Wilkes 24 March 2007

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: all around the sides of the basin

Image Source: digtal photograph taken by John Wilkes 24 March 2007

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design element - motifs - chevron

Scene Description: on the columns of the arcade

Image Source: digtal photograph taken by John Wilkes 24 March 2007

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design element - motifs - plant or tree?

Scene Description: in each alternate arch of the arcade

Image Source: digtal photograph taken by John Wilkes 24 March 2007

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human figure

Scene Description: in each alternate arch of the arcade

Image Source: digtal photograph taken by John Wilkes 24 March 2007

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information

Scene Description: [source not reported: probably church guide]

Image Source: digtal photograph taken by John Wilkes 24 March 2007 [from a local church guide?]

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view of basin

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Gethyn-Jones (1979: pl. 57b)

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view of basin - projection

Scene Description: a comparative re-created projection of the basin program in three cognate fonts

view of basin and cover

Image Source: digtal photograph taken by John Wilkes 24 March 2007

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Anne, Oxenhall. A 19th century church, by John Middleton of 1867-8, with an early 14th century tower which had a spire until 1971. The tip survives in the churchyard."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3951494] [accessed 7 December 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3951453] [accessed 7 December 2018]

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view of church exterior in context - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2014 by Philip Pankhurst [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3951401] [accessed 7 December 2018]

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view of font

Image Source: digtal photograph taken by John Wilkes 24 March 2007

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by Phil Draper, 2005

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00366OXE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Anne

Church Patron Saints: St. Anne

Church Location: Oxenhall, Newent GL18 1RH, United Kingdom

Country Name: England

Location: Gloucestershire, South West

Directions to Site: Located S of the M50, N of the A40, 2 km NNW of Newent

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Gloucester

Historical Region: Hundred of Botloe

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?

Workshop/Group/Artisan: lead font

Cognate Fonts: Frampton-on Severn, Siston, Tidenham, Lancaut and Sandhurst (Gloucestershire). All believed to be from the same mould.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this font]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Oxenhall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SO7126/oxenhall/] [accessed 7 December 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 notes: "a very remarkable and handsome font, of much greater antiquity than the church: the bowl is of lead, bearing a representation, in low relief, of the Redeemer, the right hand raised in the act of benediction, the left resting on a book; the bowl is Norman, the base in the decorated style." Described in Bond (1908) as a lead baptismal font, one of many fonts that had been assigned in the past a pre-Conquest [i.e., pre 1066 A.D.] by some; Bond argues that this font is not likely "to be earlier than the closing years of the twelfth or the early years of the following century". In Fryer (1908). In Gethyn-Jones (1979). Lead bowl resting on a stone base; the basin sides have an arcade whose arches have figures and foliage in alternate arches; one of the figures appears to be Christ with his right hand raised in benediction; the columns which make up the arches have chevron pattern ornamentation. Described and illustrated in Zarnecki (1957): "Although inspired by Mosan metalwork, these figures retain something of the style of Anglo-Saxon art". [cf. also Index entry for Frampton-on-Severn]. Noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. One of the important Gloucestershire group of six late C12 lead fonts, with an arcade enriched with chevron, cable, and sunk pellet mouldings and containing six seated apocalyptic figures and six scrolls.The top band has rather damaged anthemions." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 12, 2010) notes: "Oxenhall church was probably of early Norman or pre-Conquest origin, for, unlike several neighbouring churches, there is no evidence that it originated as a chapel to Newent. The earliest surviving part of its fabric and fittings is a 12thcentury lead font. When first found recorded, in 1291, the church was in the possession of the Knights Hospitaller. [...] The 12th-century lead font is one of six which were cast from the same mould, probably in the Bristol area."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.93837, -2.4211

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 56′ 18.13″ N, 2° 25′ 15.96″ W

UTM: 30U 539796 5754342

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, lead

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (inside rim): 63.75 cm*

Basin Total Height: 55 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [in inches in Fryer (1908: 281)]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and round, with some carving ornamentation on the upper surface

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-12-07 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

Clayton, Brian C., "English Church Fonts of Ornamental Lead Work", X, no. 57, Apollo: a Journal of the Arts, 1929, pp. 133-138; r["References"]

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

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

Fryer, Alfred C., "The Gloucestershire fonts", 31(1908); 34(1911); 40(1917); 41(1918); 42(1920), Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1908, 1911, 1920, pp. 31 (277-281); 34 (195-207); 40(39-56); 41 (27-35); 42 (69-88); r["References"]

Gethyn-Jones, Eric, The Dymock School of Sculpture, London: Phillimore, 1979

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

Verey, David, Gloucestershire, London: Penguin Books, 1999-2002

Zarnecki, George, English Romanesque Lead Sculpture: Lead Fonts of the Twelfth Century, London: A. Tiranti, 1957