Syresham / Sieresham
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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
Image Source: digital photograph 5 April 2017 by Chris Brown [https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5608357] [accessed 16 February 2025]
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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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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & Ron Baxter, 2004
Image Source: detail of a 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
Font ID: 01752SYR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater
Previous Font Location(s): Turweston church, Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire [cf. FontNotes]
Church Address: Syresham, Brackley NN13 5HH, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1327 226245
Site Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A43, 6 km NE of Brackley, 16 km E of Banbury (via the B4525)
Additional Comments: altered font : drastically cleaned / re-tooled / damaged font / moved font: cracked through vertically and horizontally -- disappeared font? (the one from the Domesday-time church here?)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 30U 631439 5770569
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.07009, -1.0823
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 4′ 12.32″ N, 1° 4′ 56.28″ W
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. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 211
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973, p. 422