Asthall / Asthal / Esthale
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - nave - ceiling - detail
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & John and Sarah Blair, 2005
Image Source: photograph by A. Benkowska Kafel, in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/ox/astha/index.htm] [accessed 17 June 2007]]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & John and Sarah Blair, 2005
Image Source: photograph by A. Benkowska Kafel, in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/ox/astha/index.htm] [accessed 17 June 2007]]
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view of church interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The British Academy & John and Sarah Blair, 2005
Image Source: photograph by A. Benkowska Kafel, in The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland [http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/ed/ox/astha/index.htm] [accessed 17 June 2007]]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 06697AST
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, N aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Asthall, Burford OX18 4HW. UK
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A40, 10 km WNW of Witney, about 30 km EEN of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Bampton
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Asthall [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP2811/asthall/] [accessed 11 December 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911 reports "a Norman font" here. Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Late C12. Tub-shaped, the base with a band of roll moulding." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 15, 2006) notes: "A church was founded for Asthall probably soon after the Norman Conquest [...] A church existed probably by 1071 [...] and certainly by c. 1160, the date of the earliest surviving datable fabric (the north arcade columns) [...] The church's dedication to St Nicholas is recorded from 1320 [...] the font is early 12th-century". Noted and illustrated in the CRSBI (2017): "Located in N aisle, towards W end. Drum-shaped, slightly tapering towards the base, of oolitic limestone. Plain bowl, the bottom stage of which is of a smaller diameter and separated from the main part of the bowl by a roll-moulding. Base probably original, with chamfered upper edge".
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 597424 5739803
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.800586, -1.58711
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 48′ 2.11″ N, 1° 35′ 13.6″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 8.5 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 77 cm*
Basin Total Height: 57 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 75 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2017)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911, p. 21 / [http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 30 June 2007]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 425