Bucknell / Buchehelle / Bucknell nr. Bicester

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view of church exterior - north view

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with the font at the far end

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2015

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06298BUC
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Bainton Rd, Bucknell, Oxfordshire, OX27 7LS
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 4 km NW of Bicester
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Kirtlington [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Ploughley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated
There is an entry for this Bucknell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5625/bucknell/] [accessed 6 December 2016] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford (1846) reports an octagonal baptismal font here, "quite plain". The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 6, 1959) notes: "The earliest evidence yet found for the existence of a church at Bucknell dates from 1074 [...] In 1074 Robert d'Oilly granted two-thirds of the demesne tithes of Bucknell, along with those of some 70 other manors, to the church of St. George in Oxford castle. [...] The church is a fine example of 13th-century architecture, but the massive tower, placed between chancel and nave, is 12thcentury and belongs to an earlier church [...] a plain octagonal font on an octagonal base of two tiers", and mentions a "Buckler drawing in MS. Top. Oxon. a 65 f. 129" [Bodleian Library, Oxford]. Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Octagonal, Dec[orated]." [NB: the VCH (ibid.) adds: "The earliest evidence yet found for the existence of a church at Bucknell dates from 1074", so it is quite possible there may have been an early Norman font later replaced by the present one]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.92592, -1.18632
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 55′ 33.31″ N, 1° 11′ 10.75″ W
UTM: 30U 624711 5754353

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with depressed centre; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-01-14 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
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