Claydon nr. Banbury
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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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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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INFORMATION
FontID: 05186CLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Location: Manor Park, Claydon, Oxfordshire, OX17 1HH, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
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
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
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
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.146948, -1.334137
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 8′ 49.01″ N, 1° 20′ 2.89″ W
UTM: 30U 613984 5778691
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-01-18 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
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