Stanton St. John / Stantone

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 December 2011 by Motacilla [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:StantonStJohn_StJonhBaptist_south.JPG] [accessed 14 June 2012]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes in June 2006

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 06316STA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Middle Road, Stanton St. John, Oxfordshire, OX33 1HW

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located 7 km ENE of Oxford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Headington [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Bullingdon

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave

Century and Period: 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photograph of this font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for this Stanton [St John] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5709/stanton-st-john/] [accessed 5 December 2016], none of which mention cleric or church in it. The Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford (1846) notes: "The Font is octagonal, quite plain, and remarkably low, standing on the ground without any steps". This description no longer matches the font as, sometime after the mid-19th century an octagonal pedestal base was provided for the old basin. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 5, 1957) notes: "Between 1135 and 1150 John de St. John, then lord of Stanton, granted the parish church to Eynsham Abbey. [...] Of the 12th- and 13th-century building only the north arcade has survived. [...] The font is of plain octagonal form"; the VCH plan of the church interior shows the font located on the west side of the second pillar of the north arcade. Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Octagonal and plain. C14?" [NB: we have no information on the font from the earlier church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.779934, -1.164302

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 46′ 47.76″ N, 1° 9′ 51.49″ W

UTM: 30U 626634 5738156

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-20th century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: wooden, octagonal and practically flat

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-06-14 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