Rotherfield Peppard
Image copyright © John Ward, 2009
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BU01: design element - motifs - rope moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2009 by John Ward
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2009 by John Ward
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © The Rector and Churchwardens, All Saints Church, Rotherfield Peppard, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph from the Parish web site
Copyright Instructions: Reproduced by permission of the Rector and Churchwardens, All Saints Church, Rotherfield Peppard, Oxfordshire, England (e-mail of 25 July 2006)
INFORMATION
FontID: 12029ROT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the B481, 9-10 km N of Reading
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, just W of S entrance
Century and Period: 12th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Rector and Churchwardens, All Saints Church, Rotherfield Peppard, for their photograph of this font. We are also grateful to John Ward, of Oxfordshire Churches [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches], for his photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is N[orman], round, cup-shaped, with the cable moulding." Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840" as a font of the late-Norman or Early English period. In Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Norman, tub-shaped, with a band of cable-moulding." Baptismal font probably of the 12th century consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin plain but for a rope moulding on the lower basin underbowl, just above the scotia that indicates the beginning of the base; cylindrical base in two volumes, the upper chamfered at the top side, the lower totally cylindrical, both otherwise plain. The Rotherfield Peppard Parish web site [www.allsaintspeppard.org.uk] dates the font to the 12th century and identifies the material as "Corallian freestone quarried at Wheatley, Oxfordshire." Wooden font cover, flat and round, with metal decoration; appears modern.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Corallian freestone)
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
"Church notes, chiefly in Berks, Wilts, and Oxford, with a few in Somerset and Gloucestershire", 44, Archaeological Journal, 1887, pp. 43-50; 185-193; 291-303; 397-402; p. 300
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