Iffley No. 1 / Ifley / Ifly / Yeoffley / Gistelei / Givetelei / Gyftelai

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: engraving by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

Copyright Instructions: PD

design element - patterns - torsade

Image Source: engraving by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of base - northwest side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 18 June 2007

view of base - outer colonnette - northeast side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 18 June 2007

view of base - outer colonnette - northwest side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 18 June 2007

view of base - outer colonnette - southwest side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 18 June 2007

view of basin - northwest side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 18 June 2007

view of church exterior - north portal

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 1 June 2007

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 2006

view of church exterior - north side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 1 June 2007

view of church exterior - north side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 1 June 2007

view of church exterior - north side - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 1 June 2007

view of church exterior - north side - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 1 June 2007

view of church exterior - north side - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 1 June 2007

view of church exterior - north side - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 1 June 2007

view of church exterior - north side - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 1 June 2007

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 2006

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Scene Description: right side capital

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 2006

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Scene Description: right side capital

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 2006

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Scene Description: left side capital

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 2006

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Scene Description: left side capital: two centaurs

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 2006

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Scene Description: left side capital: centaur and feline fight

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 2006

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 2006

view of church exterior - tower - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 1 June 2007

view of church exterior - tower - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 1 June 2007

view of church exterior - tower - north side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 1 June 2007

view of church exterior - west façade

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 2006

view of church exterior - west façade

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 2007

view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 2006

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 2006

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 2006

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Scene Description: right side: eagle of John (top) - angel of Matthew (bottom)

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 2006

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Scene Description: top side: lion of Mark (left) - bull of Luke (right)

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 2006

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Scene Description: left side: Zodiac symbols?

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 2006

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Scene Description: left side: Zodiac signs?

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 2006

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Scene Description: left side: decorative element

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 2006

view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Scene Description: upper frieze

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 2006

view of church interior - chancel and nave - looking west

Scene Description: the old font visble by the west entranceway

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - detail

Scene Description: on the base of a column

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - detail

Scene Description: on the base of a column

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2013 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: engraving by J. Basire in Gough (1792)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

Image Source: illustration in Old England (1845: 595)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font - north side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 18 June 2007

view of font and cover in context - northwest side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed 18 June 2007

INFORMATION

FontID: 02681IFF

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Church Way, Iffley, Oxfordshire, OX4 4EJ

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located 3 km SSE of Oxford, down the A4144, just E of South Hinksey (alternatively, about 4 km on the towpath along the Isis bank from Christ Church college grounds, Oxford; turn left at the locks, up Mill Rd, then right to the church)

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Bullingdon

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, near the W entranceway

Date: ca. 1170?

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Norman

Church Notes: The church's western portal is remarkable

Font Notes: Click to view

Baptismal font of the table-top type noted, with an engraving by J. Basire, in Gough (1792). Tymms (1834) reports it as "very large". Moule (1837) describes it as "evidently constructed to be used for total immersion". The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is very large and lined with lead; it has a square top supported on a centre thick shaft, and four thinner ones around it." In Old England (1845). In Parker's Glossary (1850). In Murray (1882). Bond (1908) cites this font in his index but the reference is blind. Ruprich-Robert (1884-1889) shows a drawing of a square font mounted on a central cylindrical base and four detached corner columns; these columns are not symmetrical: some are decorated with torsade motif, others with just horizontal mouldings; the lower base/plinth is square and made of two steps: the inner shaft rests on the upper step, whereas the outer colonnettes rest on the second step. Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911: "the font, a very early and curious example of black marble, is about 3 feet 6 inches square, supported on a short circular stone pedestal with four smaller ones at the angles, three of which are twisted; the whole rests on a square base". Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as a square basin mounted on a central column and four outer colonnettes; of the Norman period. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 5, 1957), with sources from the Osenay Cartulary (vi, 135), notes: "Iffley obtained its own church in the late 12th century [...] The church was probably built about 1175–82 by Robert de St. Remy, who created a new parish out of his manor. Before that the village had apparently been served by Cowley church [...] Most of the original building remains [...] The font, which is probably late 12th century, is nearly square with a round hollow, set on a round stem, with four shafts; of which three are original, and one 13th century." A locally-printed guide [ca. 1970?] notes "It is supported by three 12th century spiral columns and one of the 13th century, possibly from an old window in the Rectory." Hutton (1976) dates it 12th-century. Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974) with late 12yh-century date, but "one plain shaft is C13."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 622441 5732608

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 13 cm [narrow sides] -- 35-36 cm [at angles]

Diameter (inside rim): 81-84 cm

Basin Depth: 28 cm

Height of Basin Side: 33-35 cm

Height of Base: 71-72 cm [includes square lower base]

Height of Central Column: 17 cm

Height of Side Columns: 55-56 cm [from the edge of the basin corner]

Font Height (less Plinth): 105-106 cm [includes square lower base]

Trapezoidal Basin: 108 x 111 cm

Notes on Measurements: measurements taken 23 September 2007

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with metal decorations and ring handle

REFERENCES

S. Mary the Virgin Iffley, Oxford: a short guide, Oxford: Oliver & Son Ltd., [ca. 1970?]

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-06-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Frere, S.S., "Roman Britain in 1988", 20, Britannia, 1989, pp. 319 and fig. 26; p. 65fn

Gough, Richard, "Description of the old font in the Church of East Meon, Hampshire, 1789: with some observations on fonts", X, Archaeologia, 1792, pp. 183-209; p. 190 and pl. XXV

Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976

Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911

Knight, Charles, Old England: a pictorial museum of regal, ecclesiastical, baronial, municipal and popular antiquities, London: Charles Knight & Co., Ludgate Street, 1845

Moule, Thomas, The English counties delineated; or, A topographical description of England [...], London: George Virtue, 1837 [vol. 2]

Murray, John [the firm], Handbook for travellers in Berks. Bucks and Oxfordshire, including a [...], London: John Murray, 1882

Parker, John Henry, A Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic Architecture, Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1850

Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974

Ruprich-Robert, V., Architecture normande aux XIe et XIIe siècles en Normandie et en Angleterre, Paris: Libraririe des imprimeries réunies, 1884-1889

Tymms, Samuel, Family Topographer, being a compendious account of the antient and present state of the counties of England: vol. IV, Oxford circuit, London: Nichols & Son, 1834

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928