Wantage / Wanetint / Wanetinz / Wanting

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design element - architectural - column

Scene Description: a cluster of eight or ten colonnettes with moulded caps and bases

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 24 July 2010 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2035223] [accessed 27 May 2015]

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design element - motifs - diaper

Scene Description: one row at the upper rim side

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 24 July 2010 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2035223] [accessed 27 May 2015]

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design element - motifs - diaper

Scene Description: two rows at the lower bowl side

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 24 July 2010 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2035223] [accessed 27 May 2015]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 24 July 2010 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2035223] [accessed 27 May 2015]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: photograph taken in 2004 by Michael Ford [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1547576] [accessed 27 May 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2015 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4340717] [accessed 27 May 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2010 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1992424] [accessed 27 May 2015]

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view of church interior - south aisle - west end

Scene Description: the font and cover are visible at the far [west] end, left [south] side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2015 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4340987] [accessed 27 May 2015]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Gardner (1925: pl. CLXX)

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph in Cornish Churches [www.cornishchurches.com/Wantage%20Church%20Oxfordshire%20-%20SS.%20Peter%20and%20Paul/index.htm] [accessed 14 November 2011]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the south aisle -- Source caption: "Cover of the font. If you look at the top of the font cover you can make out the counterbalance weights which help lift the cover of the font."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2010 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2035235] [accessed 27 May 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the south aisle -- Source caption: "Font with a cover. The church font with its carved cover lifted slightly for show. It stands at the back of a side chapel in St Peter & St Paul Wantage."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2010 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2035223] [accessed 27 May 2015]

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view of font cover

Scene Description: the round-church counterweights match the design of the cover proper

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 24 July 2010 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2035223] [accessed 27 May 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01286WAN

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter & St. Paul

Church Location: Church Street, Wantage, Oxfordshire, OX12 8AQ

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the A338, 24 km SSW of Oxford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: formerly Berkshire -- Hundred of Wantage

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Wantage [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU3987/wantage/] [accessed 27 May 2015], which mentions a church and a hide of church lands in it. Murray (1882) reports a large Early English font in this church. Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "The font is singular; it is early English and of large size. The bowl is a plain decagon, covered inside and out with lead, probably a modern casing. The stem is also a decagon, with a three-quarte engaged shaft on each facet; the ornament is the dog-tooth." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a good example of 13th-century font in the Early English style, with dog-tooth ornamentation. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "Before the Conquest two parts of the church of Wantage were held by Bishop Peter of Lichfield as part of his personal estate and not in right of the bishopric. [...] They were consequently in the hands of the king in 1086, when the third part was held of him by William the Deacon. [...] There is no work in the church earlier than the 13th century [...] The 14th-century decagonal font has an attached shaft to each face of the stem with moulded capitals and bases; the bowl appears to be modern." Described and illustrated in Gardner (1925), who dates it to ca. 1220 and describes the basin as octagonal. Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a handsome decagonal baptismal font, "an Early English example", with one row of tooth-ornament "at the upper rim and two rows at the lower rim of the bowl". The base of the font consists of an upper polygonal [octagonal? decagonal?] volume with vertical sides and plain but for a moulding at the bottom, and a cluster of attached colonnettes [eight? ten?], with moulded caps and bases, that match the angles of the basin. The whole is raised on a circular plinth.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.588922, -1.428642

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 35′ 20.12″ N, 1° 25′ 43.11″ W

UTM: 30U 608857 5716488

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: yes; counterweight

Notes: probably from the 19th-century renovation of the church; may be by G.G. Street

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: 2011-11-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907

Gardner, Samuel, A Guide to English Gothic Architecture (illustrated by numerous drawings & photographs), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1925

T., D.R., "Llangwm Ucha, Monmouthshire", 4th Series, No. 29 (1877), Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1877, pp. 40-51; r["References"]

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