Claydon nr. Banbury
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view of font and context
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2016 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5100386] [accessed 8 November 2017]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mat Fascione, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2015 by Mat Fascione [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4500461] [accessed 8 November 2017]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris Cursley, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2010 by Chris Cursley [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1883031] [accessed 8 November 2017]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05186CLA
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: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Address: Manor Park, Claydon, Oxfordshire, OX17 1HH, UK
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A423, N of Cropredy, 9-10 km N of Banbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Banbury
Additional Comments: disappeared font: the Norman one -- the wooden one? (the VCH states it was replaced by a stone font in 1860)
Font Notes:
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No entry found for this Claydon in the Domesday survey. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is modern and of wood". Bond (1908) writes: "At Claydon, Oxford, there is said to be a wooden font." The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 10, 1972) notes: "Claydon church dates from at least the 12th century,[...] and was a dependent chapelry of Cropredy until 1851 [...] The parish church of St. James the Great [...] is a small building [...] The nave and north aisle date from the late 12th century [...] In 1860 an extensive restoration was begun [...] North Oxfordshire craftsmen [...] carved [the] oak font cover. The former three-legged wooden font was replaced by one of stone." There is no mention of any font in this church in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974). [NB: the church is originally from the 12th century, but we have no information on the early font of that church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 613984 5778691
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.146948, -1.334137
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 8′ 49.01″ N, 1° 20′ 2.89″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 77
- 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, [unpaged -- entry 138] / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=maikb1i3wSUC&pg=PT144&lpg=PT144&dq=longcot+church+font&source=web&ots=p3k5tJJE6J&sig=KYjkm8H5wOoAuH7BvnLp7JqMPus&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA17,M1] [accessed 31 December 2008]