Langford nr. Lechlade-on-Thames / Langefort

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Results: 7 records
design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8
design element - motifs - moulding
design element - motifs - moulding
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
symbol - shield - blank - in a quatrefoil - in a circle - 8
view of church exterior - south portal
view of church exterior - south portal - detail
INFORMATION
FontID: 09916LAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Matthew
Church Patron Saints: St. Matthew
Church Location: 2 Church Ln, Langford, Lechlade GL7 3LG, UK -- Tel.: +44 1367 860081
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A361, 6 km NNE of Lechlade-on-Thames
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Bampton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David Ross, of www.britainexpress.com, for his photographs of this church, and to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Langford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP2402/langford/] [accessed 17 January 2018], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Sherwood & Pevsner (1974) write: "Font. C15. Octagonal, with quatrefoils and blank shields." The Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 17, 2012) notes: "Langford had an independent church by the late 11th century, serving the townships of Langford, Little Faringdon, Grafton, and Radcot; possibly it was the site of a pre-Conquest minster. [...] The quality of the building, which includes an exceptional late 11th-century tower and some reset Anglo-Saxon figure sculpture, is evidence of its high-status origins, and implies aristocratic patronage [...] Much of the church was rebuilt in the early 13th century [...] During the 15th century, however, parishioners made a significant investment in the fabric, fitting a new pavement and seats, several windows, the surviving octagonal font, and surviving screens with panel tracery at the east end of both aisles." The font consists of an octagonal basin with blank shields inscribed in quatrefoil-in-a-circle panels; the basin underbowl chamfer has a graded moulding; the stem has trefoil arches or windows on the sides, and a moulding at either end. The wooden cover is octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.726, -1.643
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 43′ 33.6″ N, 1° 38′ 34.8″ W
UTM: 30U 593724 5731435
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2018-01-23 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974