Cassington / Cersetone / Cessitone / Chersitone
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes in June 2006
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the photograph taken from the west end, behind the old font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2004 by John Salmon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Peter,_Cassington,_Oxon_-_East_end_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1633025.jpg] [accessed 27 November 2017]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes in June 2006
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 March 2007 by John Ward
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2004 by John Salmon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Peter,_Cassington,_Oxon_-_East_end_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1633026.jpg] [accessed 27 November 2017]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 04773CAS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Church Lane, Cassington, Oxfordshire, OX29 4BN, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A40, about 5-6 km NW of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Wootton
Font Location in Church: In centre of the nave, West end
Date: ca. 1123?
Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to John Ward, of Oxfordshire Churches [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches], for their photographs of church and font.
There are three entries for Cassington [variant spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4510/cassington/] [accessed 27 November 2017], none of which mentions priest or church in it. The Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford (1846) nots: "The font is plain round, probably Norman". Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911 [www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 30 June 2007]: "the font, [...] Norman, is cylindrical and plain". Described and illustrated in Hutton (1957) as a Norman monolithic baptismal font; it is cylindrical and totally plain, with a slightly wider base or plinth. It looks almost suspiciously plain, especially for a Norman font. Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Norman, culindrical and plain." The Victoria County History (1990) has: "Cassington church was founded before 1123 by the elder Geoffrey de Clinton [...] The font is also of the early 12th century."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.792572,
-1.342122
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 47′ 33.26″ N,
1° 20′ 31.64″ W
UTM: 30U 614336 5739268
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and plain, with metal cross-handle
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-07-22 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974
