Alvescot / Alvescott / Alvescote / Elfegescote
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
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Results: 5 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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design element - architectural - column - 4
Scene Description: one at each angle of the basin, decorated with moulded capitals and bases
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design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet
Scene Description: one of the sources [cf. Font notes] describes it as 'nailhead' but it appears to be a row of large beads inside a thin double moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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design element - motifs - moulding - double
Scene Description: with a row in beads in between
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 09845ALV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Early English
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): Medieval dedication to St. Nicholas -- present dedication to St. Peter
Church Address: Mill Lane, Alvescot, Bampton OX18 2PT, UK
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B4020, 3 km S of Carterton, W of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Bampton
Additional Comments: altered font: new base / repaired font: inserts of new stone
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Alvescot [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP2704/alvescot/] [accessed 11 December 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is E[arly] E[nglish], square, with shafts at the angles." In Murray (1882). Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911 [http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 30 June 2007]: "the font is Early English". Described in the Victoria County History (Oxon., vol 15, 2006) as a “font of the 13th century". Noted in Sherwood and Pevsner (1974): "Font. Early C13, square, with corner columns and nailhead on the base." Noted and illustrated in the West Oxfordshire website: "The font stands just inside the door, since it is the symbolic links with entry to the church. It is made of carved stone and dates from the beginning of the thirteenth century. The font is square with corner columns and has a nailhead design around the base. The church owns a silver and mother of pearl baptismal dipper, which is in current use." [source: www.wospweb.com/site/Alvescot-Village/planchurch.doc] [accessed 17 June 2007]. The basin shows large areas of repair with inserts of new stone; the base is modern and made of blocks forming a quadrangular shape. The wooden cover is plain, square and flat.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 596289 5732959
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.739264, -1.605459
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 44′ 21.35″ N, 1° 36′ 19.65″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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. 19 / [http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 30 June 2007]
- Murray, John [the firm], Handbook for travellers in Berks. Bucks and Oxfordshire, including a [...], London: John Murray, 1882, p. 283
- 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 176] / [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. 421