Aston Rowant / Estone
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 January 2009 by John Wyatt
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Ward in Oxfordshire Churches [http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshirechurches/1641368616/] [accessed 1 January 2009]
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - pointed arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wyatt, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 January 2009 by John Wyatt
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David Ellis, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 January 2006 by David Ellis [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/108944] [accessed 1 January 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced here under the conditions of the Creative Commons Licence [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/] [accessed 1 January 2009]
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wyatt, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 January 2009 by John Wyatt
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: it is not clear how much of the base is original; some of the outer colonnettes are definiely moder replacements, and the central shaft may be not the original either; the lower base on which the columns rest appears original; the volume below is modern
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wyatt, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 22 January 2009 by John Wyatt
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © VADS, 2008
Image Source: detail of a 29 October 1886 drawing by Henry E.L. Dryden, in The Sir Henry Dryden Collection, in VADS[http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/x-large.php?pic=DR_28_071&cmd=advsearch&page=17&mode=boolean&words=henry&field=all&oper=or&idSearch=boolean&vadscoll=The+Sir+Henry+Dryden+Collection&HDC=1] [accessed 1 January 2009]
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view of font - plan, elevation and section
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Northamptonshire Libraries and Information Service, 2010
Image Source: 29 October 1886 drawing by Henry E.L. Dryden, in The Sir Henry Dryden Collection, in VADS[http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/x-large.php?pic=DR_28_071&cmd=advsearch&page=17&mode=boolean&words=henry&field=all&oper=or&idSearch=boolean&vadscoll=The+Sir+Henry+Dryden+Collection&HDC=1] [accessed 1 January 2009]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06696AST
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Paul
Church Address: 6 Aston Park, Aston Rowant, Watlington OX49 5SW, UK -- Tel.: +44 1844 352472
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located just E of the M40 (exit 6), NWW of Stokenchurch, 7 km S of Thame
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Lewknor
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original church here) -- message sent to Parish Admin req'g photo [1 Jan 2009//mt] -- photos received 22 Jan 2009
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Aston [Rowant] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU7299/aston-rowant/] [accessed 31 October 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The church is mostly of D[ecorated] character[...] The font is E[arly] E[nglish], with eight detached shafts." Ditto in Murray (1882). Described as "an interesting, if not beautiful, font" in William Perry's 'Alexander Penrose Forbes' (London, 1939) [source: 222.justus.anglican.org] [accessed 15 October 2008]. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 8, 1964) notes: "The church [...] is a comparatively large building [...] The north and south walls of the nave date from the late 11th or early 12th century [...] In the early 13th century a new doorway, with plain chamfered jambs and pointed arch, was made in the south wall of the nave. The chancel was rebuilt towards the end of the century and retains the two simple two-light windows of the period. To this period also belongs the font, supported on eight detached shafts of Purbeck marble; the basin is decorated with an arcade of recessed lancets". There is drawing of this font in the Bodleian Library [MS. Top. Oxon. a 65, no. 53]. An architectural drawing of this font by H. Dryden, dated 29 October 1886 exists in The Sir Henry Dryden Collection. Described in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. C13. Purbeck marble. Octagonal bowl with a blind arcade of lancets, supported on a cluster of shafts." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble, Polygonal I Type (Octagonal): no details [source given: Hobart Bird -- IOld Oxforshire Churches, 1932].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wyatt, and to John Ward of Oxfordshire Churches [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches], for their photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 641627 5728091
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.6859, -0.9512
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 41′ 9.24″ N, 0° 57′ 4.32″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble)
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Rim Thickness: 8.125 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 68.75 cm* [widest point]
Basin Depth: 32.5 cm*
Height of Base: 38.75 cm*
Height of Central Column: 26.75 cm*
Height of Side Columns: 26.75 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 71.55 cm*
Font Height (with Plinth): 111.55 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [a/p measurements given in feet/inches in H. Dryden's drawing of 1886]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 75
- Murray, John [the firm], Handbook for travellers in Berks. Bucks and Oxfordshire, including a [...], London: John Murray, 1882, p. 262
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850, [unpaged -- entry 2] / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=maikb1i3wSUC&pg=PT144&lpg=PT144&dq=longcot+church+font&source=web&ots=p3k5tJJE6J&sig=KYjkm8H5wOoAuH7BvnLp7JqMPus&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA17,M1] [accessed 31 December 2008]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 427