Tadmarton / Tademertone / Upper Tadmarton
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view of font and cover
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view of font
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human figure - head
Scene Description: all around the lower rim; some may be just ball-shaped motifs
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design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding
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design element - motifs - circle - intersecting - 5
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design element - architectural - arch - pointed arch - intersecting
Scene Description: a basic tracery pattern
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design element - motifs - floral or plant
Scene Description: two upside-down, one simple, one double; fleur-de-lis?
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design element - motifs - vine
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church interior
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view of church interior - detail
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design element - motifs - panel - trefoiled - 8
Scene Description: panels or arches
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martin Beek, 2006
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11962TAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Address: Main Road B4035, Tadmarton, Oxfordshire, OX15 5TD, UK
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B4035, 8 km WSW of Banbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Bloxham
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the Norman church here)
Font Notes:
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There are two entries for Tadmarton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP3937/tadmarton/] [accessed 7 November 2017], neither of which mentions priest or church in it. Sherwood and Pevsner (1974) note: "Font. Early C14, with elaborate but rustic decoration. The square bowl has a row of heads and large ballflower below intersecting arches and circles in low relief. It rests on an octagonal base, each face panelled with a trefoil arch." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 9, 1969) notes: "The earliest evidence for the existence of a church in Tadmarton is early Norman work in the church building [...] The small church of ST. NICHOLAS comprises a nave and chancel, both with north aisles, and a western tower. [...] The 12th-century church was on the same plan, except that there is no evidence of a tower. Of the original building there remains the north nave arcade, some blocked arches on the north side of the chancel, and the internal jambs of a low-side window on the south side. The church was enlarged in the 13th century [...] The 13th-century font with its vigorous row of grotesque heads remains." Baptismal font consisting of a square basin with tapering sides, decorated with a running tendril or vine on some of the sides, one other side decorated with a variety of motifs: intersecting circles, intersecting arches and plant-like motifs; human heads alternate with ballflower motifs around the lower rim; a flat moulding adorns the upper rim; octagonal stem with trefoil panels or arches; the lower basin is octagonal-to-square.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photograph of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 607997 5766045
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.0345, -1.4256
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 2′ 4.2″ N, 1° 25′ 32.16″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
LID INFORMATION
Date: unknown
Material: wood
Notes: square
REFERENCES
- Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England, Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate and Market Towns, Parishes, Chapelries, and Townships, and the Islands of Guernsy, Jersey, and Man, with Historical and Statistical Descriptions [...], London: S. Lewis, 1831, [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=51326] [accessed 9 March 2007]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 804