Letcombe Regis / Dunledcombe / Dunledecumbe / Ledcombe / Leddecumbe / Ledecombe / Ledecombre Regis / Ledecumba / Ledecumbe / Ledencumbe / Letcombe / Letecombe / Nether Letcombe

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 3

Scene Description: notice the lower base made of multiple blocks cemented together

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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph by Ron Baxter, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/759/] [accessed 28 May 2015]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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design element - motifs - scallop - trumpet scallop

Scene Description: a band of; very damaged; it has been totally eroded in some areas

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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph by Ron Baxter, in the CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/site/759/] [accessed 28 May 2015]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andrew Auger, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 April 2009 by Andrew Auger [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1237053] [accessed 20 June 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2014 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3895641] [accessed 28 May 2015]

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view of church exterior - tower - southwest view

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave, by the tower arch

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01014LET
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: South St., Letcombe Regis, Oxfordshire, OX12 9JS
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 2 km SW of Wantage
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxfordshire [formerly in the Diocese of Salisbury]
Historical Region: Hundred of Eagle [in Domesday] -- formerly Berkshire -- Hundred of Knitbury Eagle
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman? / Transitional?
There is an entry for Letcombe [Regis] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU3886/letcombe-regis/] [accessed 28 May 2015], which mentions a church and 1/4 hide of church lands in it. Murray (1882) reports a "round Norm[an] font with the scallop ornament" in this church. Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "The font is Norman, cylindrical, with a fluted moulding." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The two lower stages of the tower date from c. 1195. [...] The font is of 12th-century date and consists of a circular tub-shaped bowl with scalloping round the top between two round mouldings and stands on a circular moulded base without stem. It has a flat 17th-century wooden cover." Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a tub-shaped font of the Norman period. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015): "tub-shaped on a three-course cylindrical plinth, the top course rounded at the edge. Lead lined. The top of the bowl treated as a multi-scallop capital with inscribed lines marking the shields and triangles between the scallops. Below this a roll-like necking. Low on the bowl a group of three irregular rolls. The base of the bowl below the rolls is cylindrical, and as wide as the rolls. At the very bottom of the bowl, between bowl and plinth, a flattened roll. The bowl, but not the carving, is retooled. There is a repair at scallop level on the E." The wooden font cover is round and flat, with metal decoration and a ring handle.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.576091, -1.45319
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 34′ 33.93″ N, 1° 27′ 11.48″ W
UTM: 30U 607186 5715025

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 12.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 84 cm*
Basin Total Height: 63 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2015)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

"Church notes, chiefly in Berks, Wilts, and Oxford, with a few in Somerset and Gloucestershire", 44, Archaeological Journal, 1887, pp. 43-50; 185-193; 291-303; 397-402; r["References"]
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-11-07 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: 2015-05-28 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Murray, John [the firm], Handbook for travellers in Berks. Bucks and Oxfordshire, including a [...], London: John Murray, 1882
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928