Stadhampton
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of England parish church of St. John the Baptist, Stadhampton, Oxfordshire. Original church sited here in 1146, but the earliest parts of the current church are 15th century. The bell tower was built in about 1737 and the church was extensively rebuilt in 1875."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © William Wells, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2004 by William Wells [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/93497] [accessed 30 October 2017]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Beek, 2005
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in FLICKR [www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos] taken by Martin Beek on 10 December 2005
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Beek, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph in FLICKR [www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos] taken by Martin Beek on 10 December 2005
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06323STA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1146?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: The Green, Stadhampton, Oxfordshire, OX44 7UA, UK
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A329-B480 crossroads, SE of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Dorchester
Additional Comments: altered font (the base is modern)
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Stadhampton in the Domesday survey. The Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford (1846) notes: "The Font is plain, round, and has the staple holes remaining". There is no mention of this object in Sherwood and Pevsner (1974). The Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 7, 1962) notes: "The churches at Stadhampton and Chislehampton are first specifically mentioned in a papal bull of 1146, when Dorchester Abbey was confirmed in its possession of them [...] The church was considerably altered in the 19th century. The circular font [...] appears to be the only survival from the building that is known from documentary evidence to have existed in 1146." An extract from The New Oxfordshire Village Book (1990) states: "the font is the only part that survives from the original building that existed in 1146" [source: www.spaceagency.co.uk]. The font consists of a plain bucket-shaped basin raised on a modern cylindrical stem and a quadrangular lower base, also modern, as are the flat wooden cover and the lead lining of the basin well. There is an illustration of this font in the Bodleian Library [MS. Top. Oxon. a 68, no. 494].
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 629429 5727632
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.68472, -1.127723
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 41′ 4.99″ N, 1° 7′ 39.8″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: "has the staple holes remaining" [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. 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, p. 330