Buckland / Bocheland / Bochelanda / Bochelande / Boclonde / Bokeland / Bukeland / Buckland nr. Faringdon
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design element - architectural - window - cinquefoiled - 2 - with quatrefoiled motif between the tips - 4
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 40
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view of church exterior
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view of font
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INFORMATION
FontID: 01316BUC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Buckland, Oxfordshire, SN7 8RL
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A420, 6 km NE of Faringdon, 20 km SSW of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Gainfield [in Domesday] -- formerly Berkshire -- Hundred of Ganfield
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font]
There are three entries for this Buckland [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU3498/buckland/] [accessed 2 June 2015], one of which mentions a church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is good D[ecorated]". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Decorated period. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "There was a church at the time of the Domesday Survey on Bishop Osbern's estate in Buckland. [...] The nave was built in the 12th century [...] The late 14th-century font is octagonal and has cusped quatrefoils and blind window tracery in alternate panels." The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with a roll moulding at the upper rim and with tracery [cf. supra] panels on the vertical sides; graded undebowl chamfer; plain octagonal stem on two-step lower base with chamfered edges; octagonal plinth. Flat wooden cover decorated with metal, probably modern. [NB: we have no information on the font from the 11th-century church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.682061,
-1.505287
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 40′ 55.42″ N,
1° 30′ 19.03″ W
UTM: 30U 603336 5726735
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-11-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
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
