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 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
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
INFORMATION
FontID: 11960SHU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 6-7 km W of Banbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photograph of this font.
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." 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.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-04-05 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.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
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974
