Cornwell / Cornewelle
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Results: 7 records
LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: note the trimmed sides of the lower base
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Image Source: digital photograoh by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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LB02: animal - mammal - lion - head
Scene Description: are/were the others similar? other heads?
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior - detail
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograoh by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church exterior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograoh by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11858COR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-cut], Norman [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Peter, Cornwell
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: Cornwell, Chipping Norton OX7 6TT, United Kingdom
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A44, 5 km W of Chipping Norton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Shipton [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: altered font [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is good N[orman], round, tub-shaped, and panelled, on a square plinth, with heads at the angles as foot ornaments." Described in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Polygonal, with panelled sides and a square base with masks carved on the chamfered corners. C13?". Tub-shaped baptismal font that apppears to have been re-cut from a Norman-style font; the basin is now rounded at the top but made geometrical (12 sides?) with rectangular panel decoration; the lower base appears to have been a typical type for the tub: round moulding at the top with motifs at 90-degree angles, but has been trimmed to make it square roughly in the shape of a cushion capital; one of the angles still shows a lion's head. Flat wooden cover with metal decoration and ring handle, modern. [NB: was the basin re-cut shortly after 1850?]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 596012 5755544
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.94232, -1.6032
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 56′ 32.35″ N, 1° 36′ 11.52″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped[cf. FontNotes]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850, [unpaged -- entry 72] / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=maikb1i3wSUC&pg=PT144&lpg=PT144&dq=longcot+church+font&source=web&ots=p3k5tJJE6J&sig=KYjkm8H5wOoAuH7BvnLp7JqMPus&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA17,M1] [accessed 31 December 2008]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 556