Whitchurch / Whitchurch-on-Thames / Witecerce

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2007 by Sealman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WHITCHURCH_CHURCH.JPG] [accessed 27 August 2018]

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view of church exterior - south porch and portal

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Nicholls, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2009 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1490818] [accessed 27 August 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2009 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1490860] [accessed 27 August 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: with the modern font by the south entranceway

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Nicholls, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2009 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1491247] [accessed 27 August 2018]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Salmon, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2000 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1606435] [accessed 27 August 2018]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Nicholls, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2009 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1490920] [accessed 27 August 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12023WHI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Off High Street, Whitchurch on Thames, Oxfordshire, RG8 7DG, United Kingdom -- Tel.: +44 1491 680252
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located A329-B471 crossroads, 8 km WNW of Reading
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Langtree
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
There is an entry for this Whitchurch [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SU6377/whitchurch/] [accessed 27 August 2018] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is modern" [NB: this source mentions the Norman origin -and some remains- of this church, but we have no information on the original font]. The present baptismal font is probably of the Victorian period and consists of an octagonal basin with trefoiled crosses and initials decorating the side panels; graded underbowl chamfer; octagonal pedestal base with openwork tracery windows; moulded lower base. Octagonal wooden cover, flat and modern. Sherwood and Pevsner (1974) note a major re-building of the old church by H. Woodyer in 1858, which probably dates the present font. [NB: Sherwood and Pevsner (ibid.) note the use of a Norman doorway and a 15th-century porch from the earlier church in the Victorian re-building of St. Mary's; we have no information on the earlier font(s) of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.48826, -1.0866
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 29′ 17.74″ N, 1° 5′ 11.76″ W
UTM: 30U 632843 5705859

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: initials
Inscription Notes: on one of the sides
Inscription Location: on some of the sides of the basin
Inscription Text: "XPS"
Inscription Source: [cf. Image area]

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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