Cowley nr. Oxford / Couelai

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view of basin

Scene Description: notice the repairs done to upper rim area

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 8, 2007

view of basin - interior

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view of church exterior - south porch

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view of church exterior - south portal

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 8, 2007

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph in [http://www.oxfordshirechurches.info] [accessed 1 July 2007]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 8, 2007

view of church interior - looking east

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view of church interior - south aisle - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph in [http://www.oxfordshirechurches.info] [accessed 1 July 2007]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 8, 2007

view of font and cover in context

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 06327COW

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: Beauchamp Lane, Cowley, Oxfordshire, OX4 3LF

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located on Beauchamp Lane, Cowley, in the SE suburbs of Oxford (follow Iffley Rd to Church Cowley Rd and continue to Between Towns Rd, turn right on Beauchamp Lane; the church is up the lane on the right side -- from Cowley Rd: continue to Oxford Rd to Between Towns Rd, turn right, continue on and turn left on Beauchamp Lane)

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, towards the W end of the nave, by the last pillar of the N arcade, central aisle

Century and Period: 12th century [basin only], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Brian J. Curtis, of www.oxfordshirechurches.info, for his photographs of this church.

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in the Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford (1846): "The Font is plain and rude, the plug and chain remaining". Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911 [www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 30 June 2007]: "plain font" [NB: the full text in Kelly's reads: "there is a plain font and some benches, dated 1632", but the 1632 date applies only to the benches. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 5, 1957) notes: "Oseney Abbey probably rebuilt the church of St. James after acquiring it in 1149. The oldest parts of the present church [...] are late-12th-century [...] The font is of the 12th or 13th century, on a modern base. [...] In 1864–5 it was enlarged and restored by G. E. Street [...] a new font pedestal, and new marble reredos added." On-site notes: the font consists of a plain cylindrical basin raised on a two-volume cylindrical base designed in the old style, slightly wider than the basin itself, but it is Victorian; of the same period is probably the round wooden cover with finial orb-and-cross [the local people informed that the original cross of the finial was made of brass but was broken from the orb and/or stolen; the tiny replacement is made of wood and held down with plasticine]; the basin has had repairs made to the upper rim, the damage probably resulting from the removal of the original metal staples of the cover; the repair is not recent.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.749925, -3.552542

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 44′ 59.73″ N, 3° 33′ 9.15″ W

UTM: 30U 461020 5622162

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 10-12 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 50-51 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 73 cm

Basin Depth: 29 cm

Basin Total Height: 43 cm

Height of Base: 71 cm [modern]

Font Height (less Plinth): 114 cm [with modern base]

Font Height (with Plinth): 131 [base and plinth are modern]

Notes on Measurements: on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century? Victorian?

Material: wood, oak

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-06-12 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