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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 May 2010 by Motacilla [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NorthMoreton_AllSaints_exterior.JPG] [accessed 8 December 2011]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 December 2009 by Bill Nicholls [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1654266] [accessed 8 December 2011]

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view of church interior - plan

Scene Description: showing the location of the font in the nave

Image Source: plan [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43251] [accessed 4 January 2009]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: notice the insert repair to the upper side of the basin

Image Source: digital phtograph taken 2 November 2009 by Sheepdog Rex [www.flickr.com/photos/sheepdog_rex/4069759960/] [accessed 8 December 2011]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 December 2009 by Bill Nicholls [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1653654] [accessed 8 December 2011]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01319MOR

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Wallingford Road, North Moreton, Oxfordshire, OX11 9AT

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the A4130, just NW of Wallingford, 3 km E of Didcot, 20 km SE of Oxford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Blewbury [in Domesday] -- formerly in Berkshire -- Hundred of Moreton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, W side, just N of the last W pillar of the arcade that separates the nave from the S aisle

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for [North and South] Moreton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/north-and-south-moreton/] [accessed 4 May 2015], two of which mention a church in each. A font here is described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "The font is large, cylindrical, and probably Norman." Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 3, 1923) notes: "a late 12th-century semicircular arch, now preserved in the south chapel, is, with the 12th-century font, testimony to the existence of a 12th-century church on this site [...] The plain tub font is of the 12th century." The wooden cover dates from the 19th century. [NB: we have no information on the fonts of the two Domesday-time churches here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.601904, -1.189808

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 36′ 6.85″ N, 1° 11′ 23.31″ W

UTM: 30U 625365 5718315

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: cylindrical

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?

Material: wood,

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: 2009-01-04 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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