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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

Image Source: John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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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

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: Click to view font notes

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