Baulking / Balking
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: EXT NW digital photograph taken 21 March 2014 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4099689] [accessed 9 June 2015]
INT E digital photograph taken 21 March 2014 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4099622] [accessed 9 June 2015]
INT W digital photograph taken 21 March 2014 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4099668] [accessed 9 June 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Bates, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 January 2006 by Colin Bates [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/113668] [accessed 9 November 2011]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![with the old font at the far [west] end](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150610003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with the old font at the far [west] end
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2014 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4099668] [accessed 9 June 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: with the old font in the foreground, at the west end
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph by Walton Adams & Sons, Reading, in Keyser (1914)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04779BAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Chapel or Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Station Road, Baulking, Oxfordshire, SN7 7QE
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the district of Faringdon, sub-district of Buckland
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: formerly in Berkshire -- Hundred of Shrivenham
Font Notes:
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No entry for Baulking found in the Domesday survey. A font here is noted and illustrated in Keyser (1914): "The Chapel or Church [...] dedicated to St. Nicholas [...] appears to have been built at about the end of the 12th century, the nave being of this date, with later windows inserted iu the walls, while the chancel is Early English of the early part of the i3th century. [...] At the west end is the font [...] with very large octagonal tubshaped bowl on a circular base. It is co-eval with the earliest part of the Church." The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "The church of ST. NICHOLAS, Balking, is a 13th-century structure [...] No change has been made in the plan since the building was erected [...] There was a restoration in 1889 [...] The font consists of a plain octagonal stone basin on a short circular stem and base and is probably of the same date as the church." Dated as probably Early English in Hutton (1957).
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 600841 5719039
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.61334, -1.54358
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 36′ 48.02″ N, 1° 32′ 36.89″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped, octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Hutton, Graham, English Parish Churches, London: Thames & Hudson, 1976, p. 47
- Kempthorne, G.A., Captain, "Sandhurst, Berks.", 20, No.1 (1914), Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archaeological Journal, 1914, pp. 21-25; p. 35, 36 and fig. 29