Broughton / Brobtone / Broughton nr. Banbury

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: the left half of the rim here is rope moulding; the right half is zigzag pattern

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes in June 2006 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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design element - patterns - zigzag

Scene Description: the zig-zag ends at the right end, where a few coils of the rope moulding are discernible -- notice the inscription around the bottom of the modern wooden cover: "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (John, 3:5).

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5420391] [accessed 6 November 2017]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Broughton church. One may marvel at the inspiration of the family of Broughton, named after the village, who composed on this lovely site the symphony of manor house and church, hewn from local quarries of honey-coloured stone. Its setting, among gentle hills and valleys, is at the confluence of two brooks."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2008 by Francois Thomas [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/801324] [accessed 6 November 2017]

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view of church exterior - west tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes in June 2006 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis

Scene Description: Source caption: "Broughton, St. Mary's Church: Fine and rare c14th stone rood-screen. Standing at the entrance to the chancel."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5420384] [accessed 6 November 2017]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes in June 2006 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of font and cover - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2017 by Michael Garlick [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5420391] [accessed 6 November 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11966BRO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Sandfine Road, Broughton, Oxfordshire, OX15 5EF, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the B4035, 4 km SW of Banbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Bloxham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1100?

Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and font.

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There is an entry for this Broughton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4238/broughton/] [accessed 6 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911 notes: "a Norman font consisting of a circular basin with cable moulding on a circular pedestal". The entry for this parish in the Voctoria County History (Oxon., vol. 9, 1969) notes: "The written evidence for Broughton church begins in 1224, the date of the first known presentation, [...] but the font suggests that a church was in existence there c. 1100 [...] The church of ST. MARY [...] dates almost entirely from the 14th century and contains some excellent work of that period. The circular font with its cablemoulding [...] is the only evidence of a previous 12thcentury church." Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. C12, with cable-moulding round the rim." The bucket-shaped basin is plain but for a combination of zig-zag pattern and a thick rope moulding below the upper rim, and is raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal stem; the pyramidal wooden cover is of later date, probably modern, with cusped arrises, and bears an inscription with the text of John 3:5 around the bottom sides.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.0422, -1.3911

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 2′ 31.92″ N, 1° 23′ 27.96″ W

UTM: 30U 610344 5766954

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood,

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974