Oddington / Oddington-on-Otmoor
Image copyright © John Ward, 2009
Standing permission
Results: 3 records
view of font
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes in June 2006 [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Daniels, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 March 2014 by Steve Daniels [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3981564] [accessed 14 December 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11957ODD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Norman / Transitional?
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Andrew
Church Address: Oddington, Oxfordshire OX5 2QX
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located between Noke, to the SW, and Charlton-on-Otmoor, to the NE, 15 km NE of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Kirtlington [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Ploughley
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the ca. 1146 church here)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Oddington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5514/oddington/] [accessed 14 December 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 6, 1959) notes: "A papal bull of 1146, confirming the exemption of Thame Abbey from paying tithes on its lands, including those of its Oddington Grange, implies that there was a church at Oddington by the mid-12th century at least. [...] The church of ST. ANDREW is a plain stone building, dating mainly from the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th centuries, but much restored [...] The plain circular font is probably 13th-century". The VCH footnotes an illustration of this font: "Buckler drawing in MS. Top. Oxon. a 68, f, 409". Tub-shaped font of crude and plain appearance; appears Romanesque, probably from late Norman or Transitional times. Wooden Arts & Crafts font cover has round platform with tall vertical rib-like wings. Not noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, and to John Ward, of Oxfordshire Churches [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches], for their photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 624109 5743563
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.829087, -1.198945
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 49′ 44.71″ N, 1° 11′ 56.2″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1920
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.