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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church exterior - north view

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view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01325BEA

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Swithun

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, N side, just W of the N doorway

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Swithun [aka Swithin]

Church Address: Compton Beauchamp, Oxfordshire, SN6 8NP

Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B4587, 5 km SE of Shrivenham, 12-13 km W of Wantage

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Hildslow [in Domesday] -- formerly in Berkshire -- Hundred of Shrivenham

Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here)

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for Compton [Beauchamp] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU2887/compton-beauchamp/] [accessed 6 May 2015], and it mentions a church and half-a-hide of church lands in it. Murray (1882) reports "a good Perp[endicular] octagonal font" in this church. Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "a good octagonal font". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "There was a church at Compton Beauchamp in 1086 [...] The chancel and the north and west walls of the nave, together with the tower or the lower part of it, are apparently of 13th-century date [...] The font is of 15th-century date and has an octagonal stone bowl with panelled sides." The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing NGR: SU2792386919] (1966) reports: "C15 font with canopy by Travers, c.1933". [NB: we have no information on the font from the 11th-century church].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 597091 5715287

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.580276, -1.598755

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 34′ 49″ N, 1° 35′ 55.52″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1933

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: canopy type, with open sides

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; p. 189
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 187
T., D.R., "Llangwm Ucha, Monmouthshire", 4th Series, No. 29 (1877), Archaeologia Cambrensis, 1877, pp. 40-51; p. 55