Crowell No. 1 / Clawelle

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design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: only the original colonnette [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 1007 by John Ward

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Crowell. The church dates from the 12th or 13th century, but was substantially rebuilt in the 1870s".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2005 by David Hawgood [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/39367] [accessed 31 October 2017]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. C12 origins as witnessed by a blocked up Norman doorway. However the church was largely rebuilt in 1878."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2014 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3895709] [accessed 31 October 2017]

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view of church exterior in context - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Crowell church and churchyard. Seen from the west. The open bellcote is typical of Oxfordshire churches."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 April 2014 by Stefan Czapski [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3916111] [accessed 31 October 2017]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 April 1007 by John Ward

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 09862CRO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: off the B4009, Crowell, Oxfordshire, OX39 4RP, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the B4009, just SW of Chinnor, 9 km S of Thame

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Lewknor

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [re-built], Medieval [composite]

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Crowell [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU7499/crowell/] [accessed 31 October 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911] reports a baptismal font of the Transitional period here. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 8, 1964) notes: "The original 12th-century church has been largely rebuilt [...] In the 13th century the chancel arch was rebuilt, a south doorway was added, and perhaps the holy-water stoup which is now in the south porch. A new font was installed". The VCH also notes that there is "an illustration of the font see MS. Top. Oxon. a 66, no. 198" [i.e., Bodleian Library, Oxford]. Neither font nor stoup mentioned in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974). The re-built font consists of a round basin of plain tapering sides with mouldings at both ends, raised on a broad central shaft and four outer colonnettes, on a modern two-step plinth; one of the colonnettes of the base appears original and has a decorated capital and a moulded base; the others appear modern and have just moulded bases. The wooden cover is flat and round, with metal decoration and ring handle; appears modern too.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.6902, -0.9265

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 41′ 24.72″ N, 0° 55′ 35.4″ W

UTM: 30U 643320 5728618

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-01-23 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911