Oxford No. 3 / Oxeneford

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B01: design element - architectural - column - 4

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 2006

B02: design element - patterns - diaper

Scene Description: three vertical bands on each side of the basin

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 8, 2006

LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the capitals and bases of the columns of the base

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 2006

information

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view of basin

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view of basin - interior

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view of basin - interior

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view of basin - upper view

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view of church exterior - south portal

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - south aisle - looking west

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)

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view of font

Image Source: detail of "Fonts &c. in Oxford" drawn by F.Mackenzie, engraved by J.Skelton and published by Skelton in 1821 [http://www.antiqueprints.com/proddetail.php?prod=d6332] [accessed 28 November 2008]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced here under conditions in http://www.antiqueprints.com/image-use.html [accessed 28 November 2008]

view of font and cover - northeast side

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view of font and cover - northwest side

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view of font and cover - southeast side

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: next to the south doorway

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 8, 2006

INFORMATION

FontID: 05509OXF

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Giles

Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]

Church Location: 10 Woodstock Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX2 6HT

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: The church is located at the end of St Giles Street, where it vecomes Woodstock Rd., in central Oxford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Headington

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the S aisle, just inside the S door

Century and Period: 13th century, Early English

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Steve Bartrick Antique Prints & Maps [www.antiqueprints.com] for their image of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are thirteen entries for Oxford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5106/oxford/] [accessed 9 November 2016], two of which mention a church in each. Gardner's Gazetteer (1852) has: "The font is of an elegant and uncommon design, of the time of Henry III. [i.e., 1216+], enriched with the dog-tooth ornament". Described in Paley (1844) as a "very handsome" font of "the pure Early English style" decorated with dog-tooth motif. In Murray (1882) as a font from the time of Henry III [i.e., 12-16-1272]. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908). The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 4, 1979) notes: "The church was probably built as a private church by Edwin son of Godegose, to whom Henry I confirmed it between 1123 and 1133, [...] but at its dedication Walter, archdeacon of Oxford, granted it the tithes of his villeins at Walton, [...] and it soon became parochial. [...] The early-12th-century church presumably consisted of a nave and chancel, of which a portion of the nave walls survives [...] Early in the 13th century the nave, aisles, and arcades were rebuilt, and a south porch added. [...] The font is 13th-century". Square mounted baptismal font; the square basin has been deeply carved with ornamental columns at the corners, and vertical bands of dog-tooth motif, three per side. An interesting characteristic of this font is that the inner-well is in the shape of a quatrefoil, not a common one among fonts of this period [cf. Index entry for Lenton for a Norman font with a lobular inner-well shape]. The base consists of the classical early arrangement of one broad central shaft with four detached slender colonnettes at the angles, all five with moulded capitals and bases; the lower base is very short and square; the whole is raised on a square plinth with a "priest's stone" prolongation. On-site notes: the wooden font cover, flat and decorated with metal, is of the 19th-century [dedication plate of ca. 1880]; the font is general good shape, with some repairs and stone replacement in the usual upper rim areas; the lining of the inner well is a plumbing work of art.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.759167, -1.260556

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 45′ 33″ N, 1° 15′ 38″ W

UTM: 30U 620049 5735684

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (?)

Font Shape: square (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil

Basin Exterior Shape: square

Drainage Notes: lead lining [new]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-11-12 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Gardner, Robert, History, gazetteer and directory of the County of Oxford, comprising [...], Peterborough: Printed and published by Robert Gardner, 1852

Murray, John [the firm], Handbook for travellers in Berks. Bucks and Oxfordshire, including a [...], London: John Murray, 1882

Paley, Frederick Apthorp, Illustrations of Baptismal Fonts, London, UK: John van Voorst, 1844