Yarnton No. 1 / Erdington / Eyrynten / Harbintone / Hardintone / Yadington
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of England parish church of St Bartholomew, Yarnton, Oxfordshire: Norman baptismal font". -- the old basin had been reported in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974) as being raised on a wooden base; the base is now [2011] of stone
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Scene Description: the Norman font by the east side of the chancel screen
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2004 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1633157] [accessed 6 December 2017]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 06305YAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Church Location: Yarnton, Oxfordshire, UK -- Tel.: (01865) 370954
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A44, 2 km SW of Kidlington, 7 km NNW of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Wootton
Font Location in Church: Now located in the chapel of the tower [earlier in a farm-yard]
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Yarnton [variable spellings] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4711/yarnton/] [accessed 6 December 2017], neither of which mentions priest of church in it. The Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford (1846) reports: "In the chapel is deposited the old Norman font, rescued by the present vicar, thirty years ago [i.e., ca. 1841], from the adjoining farm-yard". Sherwood & Pevsner (1974) note: "Norman, tub-shaped, on a moulded wooden base" [NB: the font is now [2011] raised on a moulded stone pedestal base]. The Victoria County History, Oxfordshire (Oxford, vol. 12, 1990) reports "a font in the south chapel", a survivor from the old 12th-century church. [cf. Index entry for Yarnton No. 2 for a Perpendicular font [said to have been originally in St. Michael's Church, Oxford] also in this church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.801821, -1.308632
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 48′ 6.56″ N, 1° 18′ 31.07″ W
UTM: 30U 616621 5740349
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2006-07-22 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