Harwell / Arewell / Haranwell / Harawill / Harewell / Harowell / Harowelle / Haruuelle / Harvvelle / Harwelle
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LB01:
design element - motifs - keel-and-roll - 4
Scene Description: one at each angle of the base
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 7 September 2011 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2604053] [accessed 4 May 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Bowen, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 January 2006 by Jonathan Bowen [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Matthews_Church,_Harwell.JPG] [accessed 8 December 2011]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Inside St Matthew's Church. View down the nave showing both north and south wings of St Matthew Harwell."
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2011 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2604063] [accessed 4 May 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2011 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2605114] [accessed 4 May 2015]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2011 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2604053] [accessed 4 May 2015]
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view of font cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2011 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2624715] [accessed 4 May 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01013HAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Matthew
Church Patron Saints: St. Matthew [formerly dedicated to St. Mary?]
Church Location: Church Lane, Harwell, Oxfordshire, OX11 0EZ
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A417, 3 km WSW of Didcot, 10 km E of Wantage, 25-30 km N of Newbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: formerly in Berkshire -- Hundred of Moreton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, W end, just inside the door
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Transitional / Early English
There are three entries for this Harwell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4989/harwell/] [accessed 4 May 2015], one of which mentions a church in it. A font here is listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 3, 1923) notes: "A church was begun here about 1200, and the work was carried on well into the middle of the century. The chancel was rebuilt about 1320, but the transepts, nave and west tower of the 13th-century church remain. [...] The circular font is of the 13th century, but the cover is a 17th-century addition." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a Norman baptismal font consisting of a tub-shaped basin mounted on a base "altogether wider than the tub-like bowl". Listed in Pevsner (1966). Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "Plain, bucket-shaped with slightly bulging sides. Square base chamfered to an octagonat the top, the triangular chamfers decorated with a keel and a rol. The octagonal top edge of the base is also chamfered. On a modern square plinth." The basin well is lead-lined; the lining appears modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.597703,
-1.291089
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 35′ 51.73″ N,
1° 17′ 27.92″ W
UTM: 30U 618362 5717679
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lining
Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 54 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 69 cm*
Basin Total Height: 54 cm*
Height of Base: 19 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 73 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2008)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal platform with vertical scroll ribs arranged around a central pivot; turned finial
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-12-08 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: 2004-10-10 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928
