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]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2014 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4099689] [accessed 9 June 2015]

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view of church exterior - south view

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 east

Scene Description: with the old font in the foreground, at the west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 March 2014 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4099622] [accessed 9 June 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the old font at the far [west] end

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 font and cover in context

Image Source: B&W photograph by Walton Adams & Sons, Reading, in Keyser (1914)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04779BAU

Church/Chapel: Chapel or Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Station Road, Baulking, Oxfordshire, SN7 7QE

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

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

Century and Period: 13th century, Early English

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.61334, -1.54358

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 36′ 48.02″ N, 1° 32′ 36.89″ W

UTM: 30U 600841 5719039

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-. Accessed: 2015-06-09 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

Kempthorne, G.A., Captain, "Sandhurst, Berks.", 20, No.1 (1914), Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archaeological Journal, 1914, pp. 21-25; r["References"]