Black Bourton / Bortone / Burtone

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design element - motifs - leaf or spur - 4

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the lower base

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of church exterior - south view - chancel portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Priest's door and southwest window of the chancel of St Mary the Virgin parish church, Black Bourton, Oxfordshire".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 July 2016 by Motacilla [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BlackBourton_StMaryV_Chancel_SouthDoor.jpg] [accessed 8 November 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - detail

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of church interior - painting - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of England parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Black Bourton, Oxfordshire: 13th-century wall painting of the baptism of Jes[u]s Christ (left) and SS Peter & Paul (right)"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 October 2014 by Motacilla [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BlackBourton_StMary_BaptismOfChrist_SSPeter%26Paul.jpg] [accessed 8 November 2017]

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view of church interior - painting - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of England parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Black Bourton, Oxfordshire: 13th-century wall paintings of the Adoration of the Magi (below), St Richard of Chichester (above), the Massacre of the Innocents (lancet window, left splay) and the angel appearing to Joseph (Lancet window, right splay)"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 October 2014 by Motacilla [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BlackBourton_StMary_Adoration%2BStRichard.jpg] [accessed 8 November 2017]

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view of font

Image Source: [http://www.sacred-destinations.com/england/black-bourton-church.htm] [accessed 19 June 2007]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2007 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01037BLA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Burford Road, Black Bourton, Oxfordshire, OX18 2PQ, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the B4020, S of the A40, 35-40 km W of Oxford [access from the A40--> A4095 --> B4020]

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Bampton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the entranceway

Date: ca. 1190?

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

Cognate Fonts: Hinton Parva, in Wiltshire, is of the same type

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

Church Notes: remains of late-13thC (?) wall paintings include scenes of the Adoration of the Magi and the Martyrdom of St Thomas a Becket

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for [Black] Bourton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP2804/black-bourton/] [accessed 8 November 2017], none of which mentions priest or church in it. Tyrrell-Green (1928) reports a baptismal font of the Norman period here, in which "the bowl is supported not directly by the base upon which it is mounted, but there intervenes a short cylindrical shaft to carry the bowl"; he gives the font at Hinton Parva, in Wiltshire, as being of the same type. The Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 15, 2006) notes: “Black Bourton had its own church by the mid 12th century [...] The church was baptismal probably from its foundation, since the font is late 12th-century […] plain tub-shaped […], on a square base”; this same source mentions in footnote 55 that an illustration exists: " Illust. in Jnl. Brit. Arch. Soc. n.s. xxi, fig. 26; Bodl. MS. Top. Oxon. a 65, f. 92." [www.englandpast.net/oxon/main.html]. Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Late C12. Round. On a square base with corner spurs." The font consists of a cylindrical basin raised on a round-to-square lower base; the basin is plain except for a moulding around the lower side; the square part of the lower base has leaf (?) motif at the angles. The wooden cover is flat, round and plain, and appears modern.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 597370 5732283

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat, plain and round; appears modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2004-07-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

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