Marston nr. Oxford / Old Marston
Image copyright © St. Nicholas Center, 2005
Image and permission received (e-mail of 11 March 2005)
Results: 6 records
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the graded chamfer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © St. Nicholas Center, 2005
Image Source: Carol Myers [www.stnicholascenter.org] and John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 11 March 2005)
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the stem and lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © St. Nicholas Center, 2005
Image Source: Carol Myers [www.stnicholascenter.org] and John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 11 March 2005)
design element - motifs - quatrefoil
Scene Description: in different shapes, as base of the tracery patterns
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © St. Nicholas Center, 2005
Image Source: Carol Myers [www.stnicholascenter.org] and John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 11 March 2005)
design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: on the panels of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © St. Nicholas Center, 2005
Image Source: Carol Myers [www.stnicholascenter.org] and John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 11 March 2005)
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Motacilla, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2010 by Motacilla [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marston_SaintNicholas_south.JPG] [accessed 13 June 2012]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © St. Nicholas Center, 2005
Image Source: Carol Myers [www.stnicholascenter.org] and John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 11 March 2005)
INFORMATION
FontID: 10765MAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Elsfield Road, Marston, Oxfordshire, OX3 0PR
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A40 [Oxford Ring Road], 3 km NE of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Bullingdon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, W end by the nave arcade
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Carol Myers, of the St. Nicholas Center [www.stnicholascenter.org], and to John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com] for the information on, and photograph of this font.
Church Notes: "At the end of the 12th century Hugh de Pluggenait, lord of the manor of Headington and a benefactor of St. Frideswide's, endowed the church of St. Nicholas at Marston (the first reference to the dedication) " [cf. VCH entry in FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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No entry for this Marston found in the Domesday survey. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 5, 1957) notes: "The first mention of Marston church is in a charter of 1122 [...] The oldest parts of the building [...] appear to date from the time of Henry II [1154-1189] or Richard I [1189-1199]"; there is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish, but the VCH plan of the church interior shows a font located by the westermost pillar of the south aisle arcade. The present baptismal font is of the Perpendicular period/style; the font consists of an octagonal basin with vertical sides, the panels decorated with tracery based on quatrefoil motifs, a slightly protruding graded chamfer, raised on a stem and lower base decorated with mouldings; font cover [modern?]. [NB: the church goes back to the Norman period, but we have no information on the earlier font of this church]
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 621696 5737708
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Apparatus: no
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-06-13 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.