Islip nr. Kidlington No. 2 / Githslepe
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes in June 2006 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes in June 2006 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes in June 2006 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes in June 2006 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church interior - north aisle - looking west
Scene Description: with the font partially visible in the bottom left corner
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11088ISL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Church Lane, Islip, Oxfordshire OX5 2SN
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the B4027 [aka Bletchingdon Road], across (E) the A34 from Kidlington, just N of the River Ray, NNE of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Hirtlington [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Ploughley
Font Notes:
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Described in the Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford (1846) as a baptismal font "good Perpendicular, octagon cup-shaped, with a quatrefoil panel on each face". Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911 [http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 2 July 2007]. The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with large quatrefoil-in-a-circle windows/panels, and a moulding on the upper rim; octagonal stem and lower base, a thin moulding marking the division; short kneeling stone off one of the sides of the octagonal lower base; round wooden cover.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photograph of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 621518 5742827
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.823045, -1.236776
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 49′ 22.96″ N, 1° 14′ 12.4″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911, p. 136 / [http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 2 July 2007]
- Oxford Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture, Guide to the Architectural Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Oxford, A, Oxford: John Henry Parker [for the Society], 1846, p. 4