Westwell nr. Oxford / Westwelle
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Daubeny (1921)
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: serving both as decoration of the underbowl and as capitals for the columns of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: at the top and bottom of the columns of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oxfordshire Church Illustrations, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 July 2006 Oxfordshire Church Illustrations list in Flicker [http://flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/202794006/] [accessed 9 September 2007]
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view of font - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & John and Sarah Blair, 1991, 2005
Image Source: photographed 21 September 2005 by A. Bentkowska Kafel
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view of font - east side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & John and Sarah Blair, 1991, 2005
Image Source: photographed 21 September 2005 by A. Bentkowska Kafel
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05670WES
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: [cf. FontNotes]
Cognate Fonts: Broadwell [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: The Hill, Westwell, Burford OX18 4JT, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 7585 758574
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B4425, 35-40 km W of Oxford, just S of the A40
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Bampton
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Westwell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP2210/westwell/] [accessed 31 December 2021] but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is very good N[orman], not round, but quatrefoil in plan, and the basin of that form; it stands on four massive shafts, with scalloped capitals and moulded bases, on a square plinth" Described and illustrated in Bond (1908) as one of several Norman fonts that evade classification, this one having "two incomplete bowls"; Bond refers to the lower part as "aproximations of what was to be the characteristic base of early Gothic architecture; one with an undercut 'water-holding hollow.'" The basin is quatrefoil inside and out; the underbowl is actually made of the four capitals of the columnar base; they are shaped just like a typical ribbed basin; the attached outer columns of the base are plain except for roll mouldings at top and bottom of the shafts; the base of these outer columns is a thick roll moulding; the central column is totally plain. It stands on a very flat square lower base and is raised on a tall square plinth. Illustrated in Daubeny (1921) [this illustration shows a wooden font cover, fairly plain and with a knob handle, modern]. Described in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as "an almost plain font of quatrefoil form within and without". Noted in Sherwood and Pevsner (1974): "Font. An unusual quatrefoil bowl carried on short four columns with scalloped capitals. It is of c.1200 and resembles the font at Broadwell." Described and illustrated in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/ox/westw/index.htm]: "The font is clearly from the same workshop as the more elaborate version at Broadwell." [cf. Index entry]. There is a recent photograph of this font by Oxford Church Illustrations in Flickr at [http://flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/202794006/] [accessed 9 September 2007].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.788688, -1.677985
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 47' 19.3" N, 1° 40' 40.8" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: quatrefoil, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil
Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil
Diameter (inside rim): 54 cm* [max. internal width at top]
Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm* [max. external width at top]
Basin Total Height: 42 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 81 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * measurements a/p CRSBI [www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/ox/westw/index.htm]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. Images area]
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 146, 151, 153 and ill. on p. 150
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Daubeny, Ulric, Ancient Cotswold Churches, Cheltenham: J. Burrow, 1921, [plate]
- 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 202] / [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. 835
- Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928, p. 37