Coombe No. 1
Results: 2 records
B01: human figure
Scene Description: badly worn, on at least one of the basin sides
B02: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches
Scene Description: badly worn, on at least two of the basin sides
INFORMATION
FontID: 05213COO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located in the deanery of Woodstock, Hundred of Wootton
Font Location in Church: [reported outdoors by Bond]
Font Notes:
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The Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford (1846: 54) describes the font in this church as "Perpendicular, panelled". Bond (1908: 276, 277) reported and illustrated a baptismal font "turned out of doors" and being used as well-head in a garden; it appears to be a tall octagonal basin with figures and arches which resemble the Perpendicular period/style; in Bond's illustration the font appears much damaged and surrounded by foliage. [NB: the illustration in Bond does not appear to match the description of the Coombe church font and is probably an earlier one discarded in the churchyard]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
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