Drayton St. Leonard

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: in the nave, looking east

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06322DRA
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard and St. Catherine
Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard & St. Catherine
Church Location: Church Lane, Drayton St Leonard, Oxfordshire, OX10 7AY, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A329, 13 km SE of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Dorchester
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Century and Period: 15th century / 19th century, Perpendicular? / Modern?
Church Notes: Church originally from the mid-12th century" [no font is mentioned in the VCH entry].
No entry found for Drayton St Leonard in the Domesday survey. The Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford (1846) notes: "The Font is Perpendicular, but appears to have been altered from its original form". Noted also in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911 as a font of the Perpendicular period. The Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 7, 1962) notes: "Drayton church is first mentioned in 1146 as a chapel in a list of the possessions of Dorchester Abbey. [...] It was probably one of the chapels appropriated to the abbey which in 1445 were served by its canons, and this is likely to have been the normal arrangement [...] The earliest part of the church is the nave with several 12th-century features" [no font is mentioned in the VCH entry]. In Sherwood & Pevsner (1974) also as Perpendicular [NB: but, is it? it appears altered, or perhaps a Victorian replacement?]. [NB: not to be mistaken with the other Draytons in Oxon, one of which formerly in Berks.]

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 628780 5725199

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 ball finial/handle; modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2017-10-30 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911
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