Salford nr. Chipping Norton

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - intersecting arches

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1609090] [accessed 22 July 2014]

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view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: EXT N PORTAL digital photograph taken 6 September 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1609102] [accessed 22 July 2014] EXT N PORTAL TYMP digital photograph taken 6 September 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1609101] [accessed 22 July 2014] INT E digital photograph taken 6 September 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1609092] [accessed 22 July 2014] ***REPLACE***? FONT digital photograph taken 6 September 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1609090] [accessed 22 July 2014]

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view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum

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view of church exterior - south view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1609087] [accessed 22 July 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 September 2002 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1609090] [accessed 22 July 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 11997SAL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: 1 Chapel Lane, Salford, Oxfordshire OX7 5YL
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A44, 3 km WNW of Chipping Norton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Shipton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century [basin only] [re-cut], Medieval [composite]
There is an entry for this Salford in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SP2828/salford/] [accessed 22 July 2014, but it mentions neither church nor cleric in it. A font here is noted in Sherwood and Pevsner (1974): "Font. Norman. A round bowl with an arcade of blind intersecting arches." The font at Salford St. Mary's has suffered the fate of the octagonal fad; the basin was originally cylindrical and probably tub-shaped, the upper half decorated with a simple arcade of intersecting round arches, typical of the Norman period; at some time in the past someone chiseled off part of the lower half and turned it into an ugly octagonal chamfer to match the shape of the stem on which it stands [NB: from the little that is left below the arcade there appears to have been a second level of decoration on the original basin sides]. Octagonal plinth. Flat round wooden cover; appears modern [NB: there appear to be two covers, both flat and round, but one is totally plain while the other has metal ornamentation and a ring handle -- cf. Images area].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.949763, -1.585283
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 56′ 59.15″ N, 1° 35′ 7.02″ W
UTM: 30U 597227 5756396

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped [cf. FontNotes]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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