Kelmscott
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 March 2006 by John Ward
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church interior - capital
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09843KEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1190?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?) [composite font?], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. George
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. George
Church Notes: Norman south doorway
Church Address: Kelmscott, Lechlade GL7 3HF, UK
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A417, 6 km NNW of Faringdon, 25 km from Swindon, 30 km from Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Bampton
Additional Comments: Kelmscott is famous for being the home of William Morris; perhaps he was baptised in this font -- composite font / altered font [later base]
Font Notes:
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No entry found for Kelmscott in the Domesday survey. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is plain, round, N[orman]." Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911]: "the south doorway and font, a plain cylindrical work, are [...] Norman". The Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 17, 2012) notes: “A chapel was established possibly in the late 11th century and certainly by c. 1200; by then it was subservient to the parish church at Broadwell [...] The chapel was dedicated to St George by 1430 [...] it almost certainly had baptismal rights from its foundation [...] The plain tub font has also been interpreted as either 11th- or 12th-century, although the stem and base are closer to c. 1200.” Sherwood & Pevsner (1974), however, date it to the early 13th century.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to John Ward, of Oxfordshire Churches [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches], for their photographs of church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 593962 5727636
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.691813, -1.640592
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 41′ 30.53″ N, 1° 38′ 26.13″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911, p. 137 / [http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 2 July 2007]
- 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 183] / [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. 666