Cumnor / Colmanora / Comenore

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design element - architectural - arcade - Ogee arches - crocketed - 8

Scene Description: with deeply-carved trefoil niches

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2008 by John Ward

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - with capitals and bases - 8

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design element - architectural - window or niche - trefoiled - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2008 by John Ward

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2008 by John Ward

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human figure - head - 8

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2008 by John Ward

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2008 by John Ward

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the font is visible at the west end of the nave

Image Source: B&W photograph ca. 1920 [original source unknown] in www.bodley.ox.ac.ik/external/cumnor/images/002.htm

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2008 by John Ward

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11992CUM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: High Street, Cumnor, Oxfordshire, OX2 9PE

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located on the B4017, W of Oxford, 3 km SW of Botley

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: formerly Berkshire -- Hundred of Hormer

Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest? / Norman

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Ward, of Oxfordshire Churches [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches], for his photograph of this modern font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three entries for Cumnor [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4604/cumnor/] [accessed 2 June 2015], one of which mentions a church in it. The present font and cover are modern, noted in Howard & Crossley (1919). The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 1924) notes: "There was a church at Cumnor at the time of the Domesday Survey. [...] The west tower and the middle part of the south wall of the nave [of the present church] date from the close of the 12th century." There is no font mentioned in the VCH (ibid.) although it notes the first register for baptisms at this church starting in 1559. The present font is octagonal, of the type without a distinguishable base that was not uncommon in this period in England, but this is a modern version of the old design; the sides are decorated with deeply-carved trefoil niches; the outer perimeter of the niche decorated with crocketed Ogee arches topped with flowery finials; at the upper angles of the basin, just below the rim moulding, human heads, at least one of which is crowned; a band of brass around the lower base chamfer bears a running inscription in Latin [transcription not available] that appears to refer to a former vicar of the Parish and be contemporary with the rest of the font. [NB: we have no information on the medieval font of this church].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.734079, -1.333124

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 44′ 2.68″ N, 1° 19′ 59.24″ W

UTM: 30U 615105 5732777

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, but quite thick

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-11-16 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

Howard, F.E., English Church Woodwork: a Study in Craftmanship during the Mediaeval period A.D. 1250-1550, London: B.T. Batsford, 1919