Drayton St. Leonard

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 September 2010 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2060909] [accessed 30 October 2017]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 July 2012 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3029328] [accessed 30 October 2017]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2011 by Motacilla [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drayton_St._Leonard] [accessed 14 November 2011]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: in the nave, looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 July 2012 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3029329] [accessed 30 October 2017]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06322DRA

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century / 19th century, Perpendicular? / Modern?

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Leonard and St. Catherine

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

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Leonard & St. Catherine

Church Notes: Church originally from the mid-12th century" [no font is mentioned in the VCH entry].

Church Address: Church Lane, Drayton St Leonard, Oxfordshire, OX10 7AY, UK

Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located on the A329, 13 km SE of Oxford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Dorchester

Additional Comments: altered font (appears to have been altered, or is it a modern replacement?)

Font Notes: Click to view

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-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911, p. 97 / [http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 30 June 2007]
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. 327
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 588