Ardington / Ardintone / Herdintone

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design element - motifs - floral - ball flower

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01287AED
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: Church Street, Ardington, Oxfordshire, OX12 8PF
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located just E of Wantage, about 20 km SSW of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: formerly Berkshire -- Hundred of Wantage
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century [re-tooled?], Decorated [altered]
Cognate Fonts: The font at Nocton, Lincs., has a row of ball motif [some sources claim it was ball-flower] also around the underbowl
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photograph of this font]
There are two entries for Ardington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4388/ardington/] [accessed 27 May 2015], neither of which mention cleric or 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": "Font, plain octagonal bowl, with a handsome ball-flower band round its lower margin." Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy example, bearing the ball-flower moulding of the Decorated period. Noted and illustrated in Keyser (1918). The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The earliest part of the existing structure is the nave with the south arcade and chancel arch, which date from c. 1200 [...] The church of Ardington was granted by Gilbert Basset about 1182 to his newly-founded priory of Bicester. [...] In 1192 Pope Celestine gave licence for the appropriation of the church [...] The 14th-century font has a massive octagonal bowl with a row of ball flowers round its base." Tyrrell-Green (1928) writes that "an octagonal font of fourteenth-century date at Ardington (Berks) [now in Oxfordshire] preserves a like conservative appearance in general. On-site notes: this font has a strange functional look, so stark is the nakedness of its sides; the band of ornamentation around its lower part breaks the plain octagonal tub into two creating thus a basin-base split. Even more of a contrast with the simplicity of the font is brought in by the tall wooden cover, an octagonal structure housing a scluptured scnes and ornamented with crocketed pinnacles all the way to its finial. The font has suffered damage to two of its upper corners; one appears to have been broken off and then repaired. [NB: there is an abandoned font in Nocton, Lincolnshire, which has a row of very worn round motifs [appear to be balls, but some sources claim they were originally ball-flowers]]. [We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photograph of this font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.59191, -1.37924
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 35′ 30.88″ N,, 1° 22′ 45.26″ W
UTM: 30U 612272 5716895

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Notes on Measurements: [no measurements taken]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wooden, oak?
Apparatus: yes
Notes: the cover appears to be of the "rim buffet" type

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.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
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; r["References"]
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928