Shipton-under-Wychwood

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B01: design element - motifs - floral - in a quatrefoil - 5?

Scene Description: alternating with inscribed Green Man heads

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in FLICKR [www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos] taken by Martin Beek on 20 May 2006

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B02: human figure - male - grotesque or fantastic - Green Man or woodwoose - head - in a quatrefoil - 3

Scene Description: alternating with inscribed floral motifs

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in FLICKR [www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos] taken by Martin Beek on 20 May 2006

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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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LB01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches - 16 arches

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2006 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of church exterior - west tower

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes, 2006 [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph in FLICKR [www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos] taken by Martin Beek on 20 May 2006

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 11998SHI

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (mid?), Perpendicular

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin

Church Address: Prebendal Court, Station Rd, Shipton-under-Wychwood, Chipping Norton OX7 6BB, United Kingdom

Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located off the A361, 6 km NNE of Burford, 12-13 km SSW of Chipping Norton

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

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Baptismal font described in Tymms (1834) as "octagonal, with elegant pointed tracery". Noted in Lewis' Dictionary of 1848: "the font, which is octagonal, is ornamented with the arms of the Warwick family and with tracery." The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is good P[erpendicular], octagon, panelled." Sherwood and Pevsner (1974) note: "Font. C15, octagonal, with quatrefoils in each panel, one enclosing a shield with the bear and ragged staff, the badge of the Beauchamps." Described by David Ross [www.britainexpress.com] [accessed 24 June 2007]: "One of the most fascinating historical features of the church is the font. This is hexagonal [cf. infra], with intriguing motifs on each facet. One motif shows the bear and ragged staff emblem of the Earls of Warwick, suggesting that the font was a gift to Shipton of the powerful Earls. Another motif shows the 'rose en soleil' a sun and floral emblem combined, that was used by Edward IV. These two motifs suggest a date of 1461-1470." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with large quatrefoil-in-a-circle panels inscribing floral motifs, three of which inscribe grotesque foliated heads or Green-men [one has the tongue sticking out; another represents an obese man with either a thick moustache or puffed up lips]; protruding moulding at the upper and lower rims; graded underbowl chamfer; octagonal stem with pairs of trefoil arches on the sides; moulded lower base, also octagonal. [We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of church and font]

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

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

Healey, Tim, "Green magic", June 2007, Oxfordshire Limited Edition, 2007, pp. 23-25; p. 24-25
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=51272] [accessed 28 February 2007]
Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850, [unpaged -- entry 84] / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=maikb1i3wSUC&pg=PT144&lpg=PT144&dq=longcot+church+font&source=web&ots=p3k5tJJE6J&sig=KYjkm8H5wOoAuH7BvnLp7JqMPus&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA17,M1] [accessed 31 December 2008]
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 759
Tymms, Samuel, Family Topographer, being a compendious account of the antient and present state of the counties of England: vol. IV, Oxford circuit, London: Nichols & Son, 1834, p. 138 / [http://books.google.com/books?id=qcouAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA51&lpg=PA51&dq=kempsford+church+font&source=web&ots=h2yFXWCzVN&sig=wFjiUVbwBUazMXVSJwmmw5-jmlA] [accessed 23 September 2007]