Shutford
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2006
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Results: 4 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 8 arches
Scene Description: or panels
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
LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
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 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 - southeast view
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
INFORMATION
Font ID: 11960SHU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Late Norman [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Martin, Shutford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: late-12thC church
Church Address: Church Ln, Shutford, Banbury OX15 6PG, United Kingdom
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km W of Banbury
Additional Comments: altered font [only the basin is original
Font Notes:
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The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is N[orman]." The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 10, 1972) notes: "The font dates from the end of the 12th century" and the church plan in the VCH shows the font located at the west end of the nave. In Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Norman, octagonal, with blind arches in low relief on each face." Listed and illustrated in the CRSBI [https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=3405] [accessed 27 June 2025]: "Located at the W end of the nave on the N side, made from oolitic limestone. Octagonal and slightly tapered, with a blind arcade on each face. Slender shafts on the angles of the octagon, with 2 or 3-stepped bases, simple rectangular capitals and a segmental head. The three westernmost faces show damage. The segmental heads of the arches are barely complete, as if a slice might have been removed from the top of the font. The base is composed of separate blocks forming an octagon, probably of local ironstone, with a broad, slightly water-holding rounded moulding around the bottom of the font, and it stands on a high sqaure plinth."
Tub-shaped octagonal basin, each side decorated with a blind round arch or panel; it is mounted on a quadrangular platform wider that the basin and topped with a thick octagonal moulding. Flat wooden cover with metal decoration and ring handle, modern.
Tub-shaped octagonal basin, each side decorated with a blind round arch or panel; it is mounted on a quadrangular platform wider that the basin and topped with a thick octagonal moulding. Flat wooden cover with metal decoration and ring handle, modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photograph of this font.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (inside rim): 52 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 63 cm*
Basin Lower Panel Dimensions: 58 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.
- 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 146] / [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. 766