Coombe No. 1

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 05213COO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Font Location in Church: [reported outdoors by Bond]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located in the deanery of Woodstock, Hundred of Wootton
Additional Comments: recycled font: Bond reported it serving as a well-head ca. 1908
Font Notes:
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, p. 277 and ill. on p. 276
  • 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, p. 154