North Stoke nr. Wallingford

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view of font and cover

Font image
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Image Source: Photograph [undated] by Walton Adams & Sons, Reading, reproduced in Keyser (1918: fig. 27) [detail]
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view of font and cover in context - east side

view from the east side of the nave
Scene Description: view from the east side of the nave
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Image Source: Photograph [undated] by Walton Adams & Sons, Reading, reproduced in Keyser (1918: fig. 27)
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view of font and cover in context - east side

View from the nave, just east of the tower arch
Scene Description: View from the nave, just east of the tower arch
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Image Source: Photograph [undated] by Walton Adams & Sons, Reading, reproduced in Keyser (1918: fig. 25)
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view of font and cover in context - east side

View from east of the chancel arch
Scene Description: View from east of the chancel arch
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Image Source: Photograph [undated] by Walton Adams & Sons, Reading, reproduced in Keyser (1918: fig. 15)
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view of church exterior - northeast view

Font image
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2008 by Motmit [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NorthStokeOx01.JPG] [accessed 5 February 2013]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 09793STO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Early English? / Decorated?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Lane, North Stoke, Oxfordshire, OX10 6BQ
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the Wallingford Rd., 3 km S of Wallingford, 4-5 km from South Stoke
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Langtree
Font Notes:
The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is small, plain, and round." Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "The font, well suited for imitation, seems early Decorated". Described and illustrated in Keyser (1918): "The font [...] has a circular bowl with moulded border round upper and lower part on a rude hexagonal stem and circular plinth. It is probably of Early English period. It has a small Georgian cover. Farther west there is a large semicircular stone, part of a plinth perhaps of an earlier font." Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "C13 tub with wooden Jacobean cover."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Ward, of Oxfordshire Churches [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches], for his photograph of this font

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 672222 5640160
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.8874, -0.5514
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 53′ 14.64″ N, 0° 33′ 5.04″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th - 18th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: four ribs around a central pivot

REFERENCES

  • "Church notes, chiefly in Berks, Wilts, and Oxford, with a few in Somerset and Gloucestershire", 44, Archaeological Journal, 1887, pp. 43-50; 185-193; 291-303; 397-402; p. 303
  • Keyser, Charles E., "Notes on the churches of South Stoke, North Stoke, Ipsden and Checkendon. Oxfordshire", New Series vol. XXIV, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1918, pp. [1]-32; p. 14 and fig. 25
  • 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 169] / [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. 723