Syresham / Sieresham

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. James' church, Syresham. Unusually entered by a porch at the west end of the south aisle"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jonathan Thacker, 2015

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 1 December 2015 by Jonathan Thacker [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4765228] [accessed 16 February 2025]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Inside St James the Great, Syresham. Fine tall arcades that seem to be of the same build. The chancel arch is also impressive for its date, which Pevsner gives as c. 1200."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Brown, 2017

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2004

Image Source: digital image in The Corpus of Romanesque Churches in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/nh/syres/index.htm] [accessed 16 March 2008]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 01752SYR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater
Church Location: Syresham, Brackley NN13 5HH, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1327 226245
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located on the A43, 6 km NE of Brackley, 16 km E of Banbury (via the B4525)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
There are three entries for Syreham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP6341/syresham/] [accessed 16 February 2025], one of which, in the lordship of Earl Aubrey (of Coucy), reports a priest and a church in it. Cox & Harvey (1907) report a good example of the Norman period in this church. In Pevsner & Cherry (1973) as Norman. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SP6309041964] reports: "Church. C13, C14, C15, restored by E.F. Law 1874 [...] Norman tub font with rope moulding to rim; from Turweston church, Buckinghamshire." Noted and illustrated in The Corpus of Romanesque Churches in Britain and Ireland (2004) as a Romanesque font, "a cylindrical bowl, much repaired and with cable ornament on the upper rim. The interior is lead lined. The bowl stands on a three-step square base with chamfers to all the steps".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.07009, -1.0823
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 4′ 12.32″ N, 1° 4′ 56.28″ W
UTM: 30U 631439 5770569

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
Rim Thickness: 7.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 52 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 67 cm*
Basin Total Height: 40 cm*
Height of Base: 50 cm [calculated]
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements a/p The Corpus of Romanesque Churches in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/nh/syres/index.htm] [accessed 16 March 2008]]

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2008-03-16 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973