East Lockinge / Lachinges / Laking / Lokyng / West Lockinge
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 01015LOC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1150?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of All Saints
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): All Saints
Church Address: Park Lane, Lockinge, Oxfordshire, OX12 8QY
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2-3 km ESE of Wantage
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: formerly Berkshire -- Hundred of Wantage
Additional Comments: recycled font / replaced font / reinstated font MUST USE -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for [East] Lockinge [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4287/east-lockinge/] [accessed 27 May 2015], which reports a church and half-a-hide of church lands in it. The Domesday survey entry for [West] Lockinge [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4287/west-lockinge/] [accessed 27 May 2015] mentions neither cleric nor church in it. A font here is described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "The old cylindrical font is in the churchyard, displaced by a modern font in the Norman style." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Norman period. Noted and illustrated in Keyser (1918), who nwrites: "the font [...] has undergone many vicissitudes, but has fortunately been reinstated in the Church." The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "There was a church in Lockinge in 1086 which belonged to the Abbot of Abingdon [...] The nave was apparently built about the middle of the 12th century, but of this the north doorway is the only remaining detail. [...] The fittings include a massive cylindrical font, probably of the 12th century, slightly tapering towards the base and finished square". Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a tub-shaped font of the Norman period. A notice posted inside the church informs that this font, dated in the notice to ca. 1150, at some point in the past "was moved into the churchyard to 'catch the drip' and a new one was put in the church. However, during repairs to a cracked bell in 1852 the new font was damaged and the old font was restored to its place. The second font, now repaired, is in Hermitage Church."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the information on and photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 611525 5715915
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.583245, -1.390322
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 34′ 59.68″ N, 1° 23′ 25.16″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round, with metal ornamentation and ring handle
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; p. 298
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 186
- Keyser, Charles E., "Notes on the churches of East and West Hendred, Ardington and Lockinge", 24, No.1 (April and July 1919), Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archaeological Journal, 1918, pp. 1-15; p. 55, 56-57 and fig. 69
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 17