Shillingford nr. Warborough

INFORMATION

Font ID: 01320SHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Decorated
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church
Church Notes: no mention of a church here in Lewis (1848), or in the VCH entry for Warborough and Shillingford, its hamlet [www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/sites/default/files/work-in-progress/Warborough_4_6539.pdf] [accessed 13 November 2011]
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A4074, 2 km N of Warborough, on the Oxford to Reading road, 19 km SE of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: formerly Berkshire
Additional Comments: ***THIS MAY BE AN ERROR RECORD*** AND THE REFERENCE TO A FONT IN COX&HARVEY MAY APPLY TO THE OTHER SHILLINGFORD IN OXON -- No church or reference to a church/chapel found yet (?) for this location
Font Notes:
Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 628815 5721083

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: type unknown

REFERENCES

  • Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 187