Longcot / Longcott

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 May 2008 by Colin Smith [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/814235] [accessed 31 December 2008]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes (www.allthecorswolds.com)

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 11871LON

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the B4508, 6-7 km SW of Faringdon

Historical Region: formerly Berkshire

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] [re-cut] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecorswolds.com, and to Colin Smith, for their photographs of church and font [NB: JW lists Longcot in Wiltshire]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is plain, round, seems to be E[arly] E[nglish]." The basin of the current font at Longcot appears to be originally from the early church here; it has been re-cut from the earlier font; the octagonal moulded stem is modern, as is the plinth. The re-cutting must have occurred after 1850

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and round, with knob handle

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