Beckley No. 2 / Beckley nr. Kidlington
INFORMATION
Font ID: 08792BEC
Object Type: Stoup
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the S porch
Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Address: Church Street, Beckley, Oxfordshire, OX3 9UT
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located E of Kidlington, 7 km NE of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Bullington
Font Notes:
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A stoup of the Perpendicular period is noted in Parker (1850). Described in Cox & Harvey (1907) as a 15th-century holy-water stoup in this church. Sherwood & Pevsner (1974), who do not mention the Norman font, do note "a water stoup" inside the 15th-century south porch [cf. Index entry for Beckley No. 1 for a Norman font in this church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 625297 5740022
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: wall-mounted
REFERENCES
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 237
- Parker, John Henry, A Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic Architecture, Oxford: J. H. Parker, 1850, p. 448
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 447