Hempton nr. DeddingtonWorton]
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Image copyright © John Temple-Smith and the Friends of Hempton Church, 2007
Permission received from the artist and the PCC
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Temple-Smith and the Friends of Hempton Church, 2007
Image Source: digital image of a drawing by John Temple-Smith in http://www.deddington.org.uk/church/fohemptonchurch.html [accessed 1 July 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received from the artist and the PCC
design element - patterns - diaper
Scene Description: on most areas of the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Temple-Smith and the Friends of Hempton Church, 2007
Image Source: digital image of a drawing by John Temple-Smith in http://www.deddington.org.uk/church/fohemptonchurch.html [accessed 1 July 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received from the artist and the PCC
human figure
Scene Description: human figure portrayed on one of the sides of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Temple-Smith and the Friends of Hempton Church, 2007
Image Source: digital image of a drawing by John Temple-Smith in http://www.deddington.org.uk/church/fohemptonchurch.html [accessed 1 July 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received from the artist and the PCC
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Temple-Smith and the Friends of Hempton Church, 2007
Image Source: digital image of a drawing by John Temple-Smith in http://www.deddington.org.uk/church/fohemptonchurch.html [accessed 1 July 2007]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received from the artist and the PCC
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05224HEM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church at Hempton
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Evangelist
Church Notes: The above source informs that the Church of St. John at Hempton "was built in 1851 by Franklins of Deddington, on land bought by the Rev. William Wilson, rector of Over Worton."
Church Address: Steepness Hill, Hempton, Oxfordshire, OX15 0QY, UK
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2 km W of Deddington (dir. Chipping Norton)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Wootton
Additional Comments: recycled font: a 12th-century baptismal font which was given to this 19th-century church by the Reverend William Wilson, rector of Over Worton
Font Notes:
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Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911 reports: "the font was formerly in the old church Over Worton". Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. From Over Worton. Norman, incised all over with zigag patterns." The Victoria County History (Oxon, vol. 11, 1983) mentions the chapel of St. John the Evangelist at Hempton, a hamlet of Deddington, with a 12th-century font "transferred from Over Worton church". The "Deddington On Line" WEB site (www.deddington.org.uk) describes and illustrates a 12th-century baptismal font which was given to this 19th-century church by the Reverend William Wilson, Rector of Over Worton; the illustration shows a roughly cylindrical basin with a moulding at the bottom and geometric pattern ornamentation on the sides; on one of the sides there appears to be a human figure portrayed. The base consists of four (?) columns, and the whole is raised on a quadrangular lower base or plinth. The entry for Over Worton in The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "This church has been almost entirely rebuilt in the D[ecorated] style [...] The font is a very good imitation of the E[arly] E[nglish] style" [this entry appears to indicate that the work had been recently completed [e.g.: the tower was finished in 1849] at the time of publication, therefore the old font must have been given to Hempton previously].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mr. John Temple-Smith, of Jeffcoates, and The Friends of Hempton Church, as well as the PCC, for their kind permission to reproduce the image of the font in our Index.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 612969 5760425
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911, p. 93 / [http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 30 June 2007]
- 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 152] / [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]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 635