Chesterton / Cestretone / Great Chesterton w/ Little Chesterton
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the decoration around the upper rim is from the wrap-over edge of the inner well lining
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 September 2015 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4796091] [accessed 23 June 2016]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alexander P Kapp, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 February 2007 by Alexander P Kapp [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/345196] [accessed 23 June 2016]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nigel Cox, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2013 by Nigel Cox [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3478316] [accessed 23 June 2016]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Basher Eyre, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 September 2015 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4796091] [accessed 23 June 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06299CHE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Manor Farm Lane, Chesterton, Oxfordshire OX6 8UD
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 4 km SW of Bicester town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Fiocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Kirtilington [in Domesday]
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Chesterton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5621/chesterton/] [accessed 23 June 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford (1846) notes a baptismal font "plain round Norman" in this church. Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911: "the font, which is surrounded by Jacobean altar rails, is Norman, plain and cylindrical, and has a singular iron canopy". The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 5, 1959) notes: "The earliest evidence for the existence of a church at Chesterton dates from the grant of its tithes to Bec Abbey in Normandy probably in 1087. […] A priest, Osmund the clerk, and his son are mentioned in a mid-12th-century charter, […] and architectural evidence indicates that the church was rebuilt in that century […] The plain 12th-century font, surrounded by Jacobean altar rails, is cylindrical, and has an elaborate wrought-iron framework for lifting the lid." In Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. C12, Plain, cylindrical, with an elaborate framework for lifting the cover, probably C18." Described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2016): "A plain cylindrical limestone font with a modern chamfered cylindrical base. Located at the W end of the nave (tower) in the NW corner. Lead lined, with the lead extending over on to the outer surface, where it is cut into a pattern like a lace doily. No damage visible. It has a wrought-iron framework for lifting the lid."
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 624899 5750125
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.887884, -1.185114
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 53′ 16.38″ N, 1° 11′ 6.41″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
Rim Thickness: 5.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 59 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm*
Basin Total Height: 51 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2016)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th century?
Material: metal, iron
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- 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.
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911, p. 72
- 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. 39
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 618