Steventon nr. Abingdon / Estiventon / Estiventona / Stephyngton / Stepington / Steveington / Stevynton / Stiventon / Stiveton / Stivetune / Stivington / Stuvinton

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design element - motifs - floral - flower - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2006 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2011 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2612897] [accessed 1 June 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font is partially visible by the south doorway

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2011 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2610215] [accessed 1 June 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: the font is partially visible at the far [west] end, by the south doorway

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2011 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2608913] [accessed 1 June 2015]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 September 2011 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2608906] [accessed 1 June 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01330STE

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael and All Angels

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael & All Angels

Church Location: Church Lane, Steventon, Oxfordshire, OX13 6SW

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the A4130, just W of the A34 and Didcot, 6-7 km S of Abingdon

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: formerly in Berkshire (until 1974) -- Hundred of Ock

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, W end, S side, by the S doorway

Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for this Steventon [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU4791/steventon/] [accessed 1 June 2015]; it mentions a church in it. 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 Perpendicular and good". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "There was a church in the manor in 1086 [...] The earliest part of the structure is an arch and pier opening into the south chapel, which are of about 1220. [...] The 15thcentury font is octagonal with a quatrefoil panel in each face of the bowl having foliage ornaments in the centres." The octagonal basin has a quatrefoil-in-a-circle panel on each side, with a flower inscribed; the stem and base appear to be modern [NB: is the basin also later?]; flat wooden cover, octagonal, also modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.620236, -1.330894

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 37′ 12.85″ N, 1° 19′ 51.22″ W

UTM: 30U 615548 5720121

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

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: 2011-11-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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