Islip nr. Kidlington No. 2 / Githslepe

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

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view of church exterior

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view of church interior - north aisle - looking west

Scene Description: with the font partially visible in the bottom left corner

view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11088ISL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Church Lane, Islip, Oxfordshire OX5 2SN
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
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 Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photograph of this font.
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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.823045, -1.236776
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 49′ 22.96″ N, 1° 14′ 12.4″ W
UTM: 30U 621518 5742827

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
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