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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: the arches were probably round, with the beaded tape decoration, but the CRSBI suggests the arches were pointed, of the late-12thC

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 February 2014, Sutton Courtenay Local History Society [http://sclhs.org.uk/history-of-sutton-courtenay/history-of-all-saints-churc.html] [accessed 21 June 2015]

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design element - motifs - beaded-tape

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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design element - motifs - floral - lily

Scene Description: adorning the lower end of the arcade

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design element - motifs - floral and/or foliage

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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Image Source: digital photograph in FLICKR from Oxfordshire Church Illustrations [http://flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/283453058/] [accessed 2 August 2007]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 October 2011 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2643910] [accessed 21 June 2015]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 October 2011 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2642692] [accessed 21 June 2015]

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view of font

Image Source: engraving in Daniel and Samuel Lyson's Magna Britannia (1806)

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 February 2014, Sutton Courtenay Local History Society [http://sclhs.org.uk/history-of-sutton-courtenay/history-of-all-saints-churc.html] [accessed 21 June 2015]

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Image Source: Hutton (1957: pl. 199)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01300SUT

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: The Green, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, OX14 4AE

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the B4016, 3 km S of Abingdon, 5 NW of Didcot, 18 km S of Oxford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Sutton [in Domesday] -- formerly Berkshire -- Hundred of Ock

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the centre of the nave, on the west end, opposite the S door

Date: ca. 1164?

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Medieval [altered]

Cognate Fonts: replica at Abingdon St Helen's

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Rev. Leighton Thomas for the information on and image of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Sutton [Courtenay] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU5094/sutton-courtenay/] [accessed 1 June 2015], neither of which mention cleric or church in it [NB: the lord of one of the parts was "Alwin, the priest's father" in 1066, and "Alwin the priest" in 1086]. Noted with an engraving in Daniel and Samuel Lyson's Magna Britannia (1806). A font here is noted in Upcott (1818) with a reference to Lyson. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports "a Norman font surrounded by pillars and enriched with sculptured foliage". Murray (1882) has it as Transtional-Norman. Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "The font is a cylinder, with a band of intersecting circles, probably lete Norman." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 2011] notes: "William II, in or about 1090, gave to Abbot Reynold and the convent of Abingdon the church of Sutton [...] The west wall of the nave, the two lower stages of the tower and the responds of the chancel arch are of mid- or late 12th-century date. [...] The early 13th-century font is ornamented with a series of pointed arches resting on shafts with foliage capitals and moulded bases. At the foot between each arch is a three-leaf flower and beneath the arches a further foliage ornament; the top has been cut down." Described and illustrated in Hutton (1957) as a 12th-century baptismal font of the Transitional period. Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2015); it suggests that the missing top of the arches would have been pointed and dates the font to the late 12th century. The font is a tall cylindrical basin ornamented with a blind arcade of tall narrow arches the tip of which has been trimmed off with the rest of the upper rim; the heads of the arches are made of beaded tape and have have varied floral motifs suspended from their centres; the capitals of the supporting colonnettes are decorated [floral motifs?]; the bases are moulded, and between them, sprout beautiful lilies the central leaf of which appears decorated with vertical beaded lines; the plain lower base is slightly wider than the basin, with graded round mouldings. The font has a plain tallish pyramidal cover, wooden and octagonal, with a large ball finial. [NB: Revd. Leighton Thomas forwarded the folowing to us: that the font belongs roughly to 1164 and it "has affinities with the Norman fonts found in the Winchester region, the sculpturing with arcades and fleur de lys being similar to that on one at St. Mary Bourne, Hampshire". Revd. Thomas cites John Fletcher's "Sutton Courtenay: the History of a Thames-side Village", p. 35, as source (e-mail of May 4, 2001)]. It is likely that the upper rim of the basin was damaged by the hardware from the old font cover, and the whole upper rim was cut off in an effort to even it out, a solution that unfortunately has been applied too often in the past.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.644077, -1.272735

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 38′ 38.68″ N, 1° 16′ 21.85″ W

UTM: 30U 619512 5722865

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one?

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead-lined

Diameter (inside rim): 62 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 79 cm* [of the existing top end, not the original rim]]

Basin Total Height: 51.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2015)

LID INFORMATION

Date: Georgian?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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: 2011-11-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2006-07-21 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

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

Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976

Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831

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

Upcott, William, A bibliographical account of the principal works relating to English topography, London: Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, 1818