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B01: design element - architectural - window - quatrefoiled (with rose in the centre) - 16
Scene Description: two per panel of the octagonal basin
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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BU02: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: a band of, deeply carved
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LB01: design element - architectural - window - Gothic - pinnacled -- crocketed pinnacle
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LB02: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 16 arches
Scene Description: inside the Gothic windows, two per panel -
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LB03: design element - architectural - buttress - 8
Scene Description: at the angles of the stem and lower base
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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church interior - chancel arch and east side
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view of font
view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 10258IDB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A424, 10 km NNW of Burford, 30 km NW of Oxford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font.
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in an undated drwing by Henry E.L. Dryden, now in the Sir Henry Dryden Collection, Northamptonshire. Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911: "the font is octagonal and of Perpendicular date, with richly-carved panels". Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Perp[endicular]. Octagonal bowl with a quatrefoil on each face, and an octagonal base with blind traceried arches." The basin has very short sides deeply carved with pairs of quatrefoil windows with rosette inside; shallow graded chamfered underbowl with a band of deeply-carved foliage motif at the bottom, which gets also the top of the crocketed pinnacles of the windows of the base; the octagonal base is of the type that is almost as wide as the basin and has vertical sides; each panel is decorated with a tall window topped with crocketed pinnacle; inside this window is a pair of trefoil arches, making a total of sixteen all around; the buttressed angles of the base continue down the moulded lower base; flat wooden cover, looks modern.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974