Oxford No. 6 / Oxeneford

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Results: 10 records

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B1R01: symbol - shield - blank

Scene Description: at the corner and on the sides

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 6, 2006

B2R01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil

Scene Description: three per side of the basin

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 6, 2006

LB01: Apostle or saint? - unidentified - 2

Scene Description: one in each of the deeply-set niches of the stem

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Holy Hayes 5 January 2007 [http://www.sacred-destinations.com/england/oxford-st-michaels-church-photos/slides/can_346.htm] [accessed 15 March 2009

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LB02: design element - architectural - buttress or column

Scene Description: at the angles of the stem

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 6, 2006

view of church exterior

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 6, 2006

view of church exterior

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 6, 2006

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph in FLICKR [www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos] taken by Martin Beek on 20 December 2004

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view of font and cover

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 6, 2006

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 6, 2006

view of font cover

Image Source: BSI - Photographed November 6, 2006

INFORMATION

FontID: 11996OXF

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel [aka St. Michael's at the North Gate]

Church Patron Saints: St. Michael

Church Location: Cornmarket Street, Oxford, OX1 3EY

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located by the old North Gate; at the corner of Ship Street and Cornmarket Street, in the centre of Oxford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Headington

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Perpendicular

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Holy Hayes, of www.sacred-destination.com, for the added photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are thirteen entries for Oxford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5106/oxford/] [accessed 9 November 2016], two of which mention a church in each. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 4, 1979) notes: "The west tower dates from the later 11th century and the church was well established by 1086 [...] The medieval font was replaced in 1710, [...] and the 18th-century one in the 19th century. [...] When the parish was united with St. Martin's and All Saints, the late-14th-century font originally in St. Martin's was brought to St. Michael's." [NB: the VCH notes that the removal of the medieval font in 1710 is recorded in the Parish Records, churchwardens accounts]. On-site notes: the present font is octagonal and appears monolithic, of the type without defined volumes in the shape, althouth the decoration indicates the basin-stem-base division: the upper valume has shields at the corners and in the centre of the face; the next volume down has setes of three quatrefoil motifs on each side; the third volume down, the tallest of all, has very deeply-set niches with a satnding figure in each, the background behind the figures decorated with panels or arches; octagonal lower base; octagonal plinth. On-site notes: the stone surface is fairly worn and has some damage; the flat wooden cover, octagonal with metal decoration and ring handle, appears modern. [cf. Index entry from a font at Yarnton, Oxon., said to have been originally "from St. Michael's church, Oxford"]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.753611, -1.258333

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 45′ 13″ N, 1° 15′ 30″ W

UTM: 30U 620217 5735070

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-06-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.