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INFORMATION
FontID: 05789ENS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located in the deanery of Woodstock, Hundred of Wootton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Date: ca. 1450?
Century and Period: 15th century (mid), Perpendicular
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in the Guide to the Architectural Antiquities of the Neighbourhood of Oxford (1846) as an octagonal mounted baptismal font from the middle of the 15th century; each side of the basin is ornamented with a praying angel with open wings; the chamfer of the underbowl is ornamented with large mfoliage motif. The pedestal of the base is octagonal and is ornamented with a blind arcade of trefoil Ogee arches; the lower base is also octagonal with a moulding. The font is raised on a tall octagonal plinth with a three-step stone ladder on one side. The Guide (ibid.) informs that the font "has been carefully restored". The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is good P[erpendicular]".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
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
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