Nuffield / Nuffield Heath

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inscription

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes and Inscription]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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view of church exterior - northwest view

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: this was porbably the main entranceway into the early church; now blocked

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view of church exterior - southeast portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "The chancel south door of Holy Trinity Church in Nuffield, Oxfordshire, England."

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "West door and window of the nave of Holy Trinity parish church in Nuffield, Oxfordshire, England."

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view of church exterior in context - north view

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Looking west along the chancel to the nave of Holy Trinity Church in Nuffield, Oxfordshire, England."

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context - southwest side

Scene Description: by a pillar of the north arcade

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05500NUF
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: Nuffield Hill, Nuffield, Henley-on-Thames RG9 5SN, UK -- Tel.: +44 1491 681221
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A4130 [aka Gangsdown Hill], W of the B4817-8 km ESE of Wallingford, 20 km ESE of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, by a pillar of the N arcade [may have been located elsewhere earlier]
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
No individual entry found for Nuffield in the Domesday survey. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is plain round, tub-shaped, with the following inscription in Lombardic characters round the upper part, and the plinth is built in with part of a pillar. '[Fon]te sacro lotum vel mundat gracia totum / Vel non est sacramenti mundacio plena'". In Murray (1882), probably after the previous source. Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "The font is Norman and slightly conical. Round its margin is an inscription rather obscured by whitewash, but of which the following may be made out: -- 'Sacro lotum vel munda ... grato tu ... vene sag muno plenale ... nte'". Listed in Romilly Allen (1888) as one of several "later fonts with inscriptions of a religious nature". Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a baptismal font of the Decorated period, "plain tub-shaped" and gives the inscription details much as in The Eccl. above. Listed in Bond (1908) as a baptismal font with a Latin inscription [cf. Inscription area]. Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974) with the inscription and a Norman date. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 18, 2016) notes: "Nuffield acquired its own church by the early 12th century, the date of the earliest surviving fabric and of the cylindrical Norman font [...] Nuffield's earliest known priest is Stephen of Nuffield, who attended a local inquest in 1184 [...] The church was probably first built in the early 12th century, the date of some surviving Norman masonry and window openings in the nave's south wall. The cylindrical font is of similar date, and has a contemporary Latin inscription in Lombardic capitals, meaning: 'unless it is grace that totally cleanses one who is washed in the sacred fount, there is no real purification in the sacred bath'" [the VCH entry footnotes: "J. Bertram, 'Medieval Inscriptions in Oxfordshire', Oxoniensia 68 (2003), 49; J.E. Field, 'The Font at Nuffield', Berks., Bucks. And Oxon. Archaeol. Jnl 22 (1916), 32; Briers, Nuffield, 139–40 and plate."]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.581021, -1.037886
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 34′ 51.68″ N, 1° 2′ 16.39″ W
UTM: 30U 635948 5716264

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes for other details/versions]
Inscription Location: round the upper part of the basin sides
Inscription Text: "FONTE SACRO LOTUM VEL MUNDAT GRACIA TOTUM / VEL NON EST SACRAMENTI MUNDACIO PLENA"
Inscription Source: The Eccle... (1850); ArchJournal (1887: 300); Cox & Harvey (1907: 183); Bond (1908: 117)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with a carved top; modern

REFERENCES

"Church notes, chiefly in Berks, Wilts, and Oxford, with a few in Somerset and Gloucestershire", 44, Archaeological Journal, 1887, pp. 43-50; 185-193; 291-303; 397-402; r["References"]
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-06-28 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Allen, J. Romilly, "On the Antiquity of Fonts in Great Britain", XLIV, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1888, pp. 164-173; r["References"]
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907
Murray, John [the firm], Handbook for travellers in Berks. Bucks and Oxfordshire, including a [...], London: John Murray, 1882
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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974