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LB01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: note the trimmed sides of the lower base

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LB02: animal - mammal - lion - head

Scene Description: are/were the others similar? other heads?

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view of church exterior - detail

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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

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11858COR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A44, 5 km W of Chipping Norton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [re-cut], Norman [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and font.
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?]

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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974