Lyford
Image copyright © John Ward, 2008
Standing permission
Results: 3 records
CR01:
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2008
Image Source: 21 September 2008 by John Ward [http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshirechurches/2893922605/] [accessed 1 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
LB01:
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2008
Image Source: 21 September 2008 by John Ward [http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshirechurches/2893922605/] [accessed 1 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the cover is behind the font, on the kneeling extension of the plinth
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2008
Image Source: 21 September 2008 by John Ward [http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshirechurches/2893922605/] [accessed 1 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 01310LYF
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Lyford, Oxfordshire, OX12 0EG
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A420, near West Hanney, 6 km N of Wantage, 20 km SW of Oxford, in the Vale of White Horse
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: formerly Berkshire -- Hundred of Wantage
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century / 15th century, Early English? / Perpendicular?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Ward, of Oxfordshire Churches [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches], for his photograph of this font
Church Notes: originally a chapel-of-ease of Hanney; became a parish church in the 19th century
Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "Font octagonal". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Early English period. Noted in Keyser (1913-1914) with date in the 15th century. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The font, with octagonal bowl and stem and a moulded base, is of the 15th century." The font consists of an octagnal basin with plain vertical sides, with a tall slightly concave underbowl chamfer, raised on an octagonal pedestal with mouldings at each end, and a small splaying octagonal lower base with kneeling stone extension. The wooden cover is a low octagonal pyramid with a Latin cross finial; modern.
COORDINATES
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: [appears to be lead-lined]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
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: 2011-11-08 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 Hanney, Lyford, , Denchworth and Charney Bassett", 19, Nos.1-4, Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archaeological Journal, 1913-1914, pp. 2-10, 33-37, 65-70, 97-103; r["References"]
