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view of church exterior - north view

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches - columns with capitals

all around the side of the basin; damaged in some areas; others show repairs with stone inserts; the base is modern
Scene Description: all around the side of the basin; damaged in some areas; others show repairs with stone inserts; the base is modern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Beek, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Martin Beek [http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3552/3769242077_869b242de2_m.jpg] [accessed 14 January 2016]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 01341CAV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Lawrence / St. Laurence
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Address: B4100, Caversfield, Bicester OX27 8TQ
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A421, 1.5 km N off Bicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Kirtlington [in Domesday] -- in Buckinghamshire until 1832/1844
Additional Comments: altered font (the base of the Norman font is modern) -- disappeared font? (the one from the pre-Conquest church here [cf. FontNotes])
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Caversfield [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5824/caversfield/] [accessed 14 January 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Lysons (1806-1833) report a round baptismal font decorated with arches here. Described in the Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford (1846) as a baptismal font "Norman, round, with intersecting arcade round the upper part, of rude and early character". Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a font of the Norman period. Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911: "Norman font ornamented with arcaded work of rude character". The Victoria County History (Buckingham, vol. 4, 1927) notes: "The church of Caversfield was given to the Abbot and convent of Missenden in the 12th century by Roger Gargate [...] The ground stage of the tower [...] is probably of pre-Conquest date. [...] The tower arch, though entirely restored, represents in all probability a late 12th-century enlargement of the original opening [...] The font has a modern base supporting an early 12th-century tub-shaped bowl about 2 ft. 3 in. in diameter and 1ft. 8½ in. deep, encircled by a roughly carved intersecting arcade." The church itself, adds the VCH (ibid.) retains the lower stage of the tower, "probably of pre-Conquest date". The interior plan in the VCH (ibid.) shows the font located in the north aisle, just east of the north entranceway. Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. C12, round with blind arcading."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 626716 5753989
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.9222, -1.1573
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 55′ 19.92″ N, 1° 9′ 26.28″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Diameter (includes rim): 67.5 cm*
Basin Total Height: 51.25 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in ft./in. in the VCH [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

  • 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
  • Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911, p. 66
  • Lysons, Daniel, Magna Britannia, being a concise topographical account of the several counties of Great Britain, London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806-1822, vol. I: p. 489
  • Oxford Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture, Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford, A, Oxford: John Henry Parker [for the Society], 1846, p. 31
  • Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 522