Bampton No. 2 / Bentone
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the composite font: original base under Victorian basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carol Harmond, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Carol Harmond [www.bastonfamily.co.uk] in 2006
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and Permission received (e-mail of 14 September 2006)
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carol Harmond, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Carol Harmond [www.bastonfamily.co.uk] in 2006
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and Permission received (e-mail of 14 September 2006)
design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - 16
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11057BAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century [base only] -- 19th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church View, Bampton, Oxfordshire OX18 2LZ
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B4449, 20 km WSW of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Bampton
Additional Comments: altered font / recycled font / composite font / re-used font
Font Notes:
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There are four entries for this Bampton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP3103/bampton/] [accessed 29 July 2014], but neither of then report a church or cleric in it. A font here is noted in the Victoria County History of Oxfordshire (1996): "The font base is 14th-century, with blind tracery panels; the 19th-century bowl, 'new' in 1847, replaced a square, 12th-century bowl with round-headed blind arcading [...] Though briefly moved to the south-west chapel c. 1813 the font was returned to the nave before 1867, [...] and in 1992 stood in the south aisle." [cf. Index entry for Bampton No. 1 for the replaced Norman basin]. Carol Harmond informs BSI [e-mail of 14 Sept. 2006] that there is a 1821 drawing of the 13th-century font by J.C. Buckler [Bodleian Library, MS Top. Oxon.a 65, No. 56]; the drawing shows the present base in an inverted position]. Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Victorian but the square base with an arcade of blank trefoiled arches probably C14."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Carol Harmond (nee Baston), of www.bastonfamily.co.uk, for the information on and photograph of this font. We are also grateful to John Wilkes for his photographs of church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 600166 5731732
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.727555, -1.549674
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 43′ 39.2″ N, 1° 32′ 58.82″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cf. Font Notes
Basin Interior Shape: cf. Font Notes
Basin Exterior Shape: cf. Font Notes
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: square and flat, with metal decoration and handle; probably 19th-century, contemporary of the basin
REFERENCES
- The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Oxford, London: VCH, [1990-1996?], vol. XIII: p. 48-57
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 431