Minster Lovell No. 1 / Minster Lovel / Minster Lowell / Minstre

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design element - architectural - window - trefoiled - 16

Scene Description: on the stem, 8 up, 8 down

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4484358] [accessed 13 December 2017]

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design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4484339] [accessed 13 December 2017]

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design element - motifs - floral - rose - in a quatrefoil - cusped quatrefoil

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4484345] [accessed 13 December 2017]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4484358] [accessed 13 December 2017]

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 4

Scene Description: this motif is repeated on the N, S, E and W sides of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4484358] [accessed 13 December 2017]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2011 by Colin Smith [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2566253] [accessed 13 December 2017]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Minster Lovell: St. Kenelm's Church seen through the ruins of the Hall".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4484308] [accessed 13 December 2017]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "A view of the chancel of the C15th church of St Kenelm in Minster Lovell."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2014 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4199432] [accessed 13 December 2017]

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view of font

Image Source: engraving in Paley (1844: unpaged]

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view of font - west side

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view of font and cover in context - west side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Minster Lovell - St Kenelm - Font. The font, placed quite unusually in the midst of the nave at St Kenelm, is contemporaneous with the remodelling of the church, dating from the mid C15th."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 October 2014 by Rob Farrow [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4199477] [accessed 13 December 2017]

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view of font in context - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2015 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4484351] [accessed 13 December 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01067MIN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Kenelm

Church Patron Saints: St. Kenelm [aka Cynehelm, Cynhelm, Kenelme]

Church Location: Burford Road, Minster Lovell, Witney OX29 0RA, UK -- Tel.: +44 1993 776492

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the B4047, just WNW of Witney, about 25 km WNW of Oxford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Bampton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the centre of the nave, W of the tower NB: [the plan of the church is cruciform]

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Church Notes: "The Church of Minster Lovel [sic] is a perfect example of the Perpendicular style, without any additions, and nearly free from mutilation. [...] The Church is cruciform." (Paley, 1844, unpaged)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Minster [Lowell] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP3211/minster-lovell/] [accessed 12 December 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Paley (1844) describes this font as "a good specimen of the period, though not very elegant. It has an hexagonal bowl, alternately panelled with a plain and ornamented quatrefoil, and a shaft of the same form with two tiers of panels." The font in Paley's illustration, basin, base and plinth, appears octagonal, not hexagonal [though Paley lists it as hexagonal], which would match its description as "an octagonal font" in the Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 15, 2006) [an earlier font may have existed here, since, according to the same source, this church is believed to have had baptismal rights since the 12th century, and the font belongs to the time of the rebuilding of this church in the 15th century]. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "A good P[erpendicular] font", the assumption being that it is the octagonal standard of the period. The octagonal shape is confirmed in Kelly (1911): "the Perpendicular font, of the same date as the church, is octagonal in plan, and has a panelled basin ornamented with quartrefoils [sic] and foliage, supported on a deeply recessed panelled shaft". Noted in Sherwood and Pevsner (1974): "Font. C15, octagonal, the sides with quatrefoils and foliage, the base panelled with trefoiled arches." The font consists of an octagonal basin with deeply-carved panels decorated with quatrefoil motifs, altering blank quatrefoil windows inscribed in a circle, with cusped quatrefoil floral motifs; graded underbowl chamfer; octagonal stem with deeply-carved trefoil windows or niches arranged up-and-down; moulded lower base, also octagonal.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.799951, -1.531262

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 47′ 59.83″ N, 1° 31′ 52.54″ W

UTM: 30U 601276 5739809

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Notes on Measurements: [No measurements given in Paley]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

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

Cook, G.H., English Mediaeval Parish Church, London: Phoenix House, 1954

Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850

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