Albury / Aldeberie
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by John Ward [http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshirechurches/2854061576/] [accessed 1 May 2009]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: Guide... (1846: 270)
Copyright Instructions: PD
design element - patterns - fluted
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1090501006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by John Ward [http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshirechurches/2854061576/] [accessed 1 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by John Ward [http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshirechurches/2854061576/] [accessed 1 May 2009]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by John Ward [http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshirechurches/2854061576/] [accessed 1 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Motacilla, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 September 2010 by Motacilla [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Albury_StHelens_ParishChurch_SW.JPG] [accessed 12 July 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
design element - motifs - zigzag
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 September 2008 by John Ward [http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshirechurches/2854061576/] [accessed 1 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 05791ALB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-cut], Norman [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Helen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Helena
Church Address: Albury, Tiddington, Oxfordshire, OX9 2LP
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A418, just E of Tiddington, 14 km E of Oxford [Tiddington Eastbound on the A418 towards Thame as you leave the village of Tiddington, take the first right
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Thame [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Bullingdon
Additional Comments: altered font / re-cut font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Albury [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6505/albury/] [accessed 13 December 2015], but it mentions no cleric or church in it. A font here is described and illustrated in the Guide to the Architectural Antiquities of the Neighbourhood of Oxford (1846): "The ancient Font has been preserved, and is a good specimen of Norman work, with some rather curious ornament upon it". The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The N[orman] font has been preserved", and makes reference to the illustration in the 1846 Guide [cf. supra]. In Murray (1882). Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911 [www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 30 June 2007]: "the ancient font, a Norman work of irregular cylindrical form, is curiously carved". It has a bucket-shaped basin with fluted motif around its sides and mounted on a vase-like base of rounded sides that have a band of zig-zag all around its middle, and a roll-moulding at top and bottom. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 5, 1957) notes: "The old church at Albury, dedicated to St. Helen, was demolished in 1828 [...] It had two Romanesque doorways [...] The present Romanesque font with zigzag ornament is the only relic of the building. The existing church was built in the Perpendicular style by Thomas Rickman in 1830". Noted in Sherwood and Pevsner (1974): "Font. C12. An irregular cylinder with a lower band of zigzag and a roll-moulding. Above this it is re-cut."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Ward, of Oxfordshire Churches, for his photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 634544 5733904
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.739875, -1.051351
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 44′ 23.55″ N, 1° 3′ 4.87″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: polygonal (decagonal?) pyramid with knob finial; 17th-century?
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911, p. 18
- Murray, John [the firm], Handbook for travellers in Berks. Bucks and Oxfordshire, including a [...], London: John Murray, 1882, p. 265
- 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, p. 269, 270
- 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 87]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 420