Kidlington / Chedelintone / Kedelinton

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 March 2009 by John Ward [http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshirechurches/3361077420/] [accessed 1 May 2009]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 March 2009 by John Ward [http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshirechurches/3361077420/] [accessed 1 May 2009]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: all down the short base

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 16 March 2009 by John Ward [http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshirechurches/3361077420/] [accessed 1 May 2009]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2017 by Motacilla [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kidlington_StMaryV_SE.jpg] [accessed 28 November 2017]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church Street, Kidlington, Oxfordshire, looking north to the spire of St Mary's parish church. The cottages on the right are 74–78 Church Street."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2006 by Andrew Chapman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/182570] [accessed 28 November 2017]

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view of font

Image Source: engraving by L.S. Meav[??] of a drawing by P.H. Delamotte, in Guide... (1846: 64)

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05786KID

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 88 Church Street, Kidlington, Oxfordshire, OX5 2AZ, UK -- Tel.: +44 1865 372230

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located 3 km W of Islip, 8 km N of Oxford on the A4165 (dir. Banbury), 12 km SW of Bicester

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Wootton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, under the arch nearest the S door

Date: ca. 1320?

Century and Period: 12th century / 14th century (early?) [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Ward, of Oxfordshire Churches [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches], for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Kidlington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4914/kidlington/] [accessed 28 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. A font here is described and illustrated in the Guide to the Architectural Antiquities of the Neighbourhood of Oxford (1846) as a goblet-shaped font dated to ca. 1320; the basin is practically cylindrical and plain. The pedestal of the base is octagonal and ornamented with two mouldings; the lower base splays out and is also octagonal and plain. The font, adds the same source (ibid.) has been "lately restored to its original position under the arch nearest to the south door". Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1911: "the font, standing near the south door, is a plain round Decorated work, on a concave octagonal moulded base". Dated in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974) to the Norman period. In the Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 12, 1990): "The only surviving piece from the 12th- century church is the plain, tub-shaped font, set on an early 14th-century octagonal base." John Amor, of the Parish of Kidlington with Hampton Poyle [http://www.parishes.oxford.anglican.org/kidlington/stmk/history1.htm] [accessed 3 February 2009] writes: "The font is also of the decorated period and is thought to have been placed in the church by Thomas of Kidlington, Abbot of Oseney. A plain round bowl on an [o]ctagonal base, it was moved to its present position in about 1846. The oaken font cover dates from 1885."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.829613, -1.280199

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 49′ 46.61″ N, 1° 16′ 48.71″ W

UTM: 30U 618509 5743486

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1885

Material: wood, oak

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-03-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911

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

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974