Brightwell Baldwin / Baldwin Brightwell / Bretewelle / Britewelle

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 11 June 2017 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5501455] [accessed 28 June 2019]

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view of church exterior - west façade

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 11 June 2017 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5501445] [accessed 28 June 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: FONT+COVER CNTXT digital photograph taken 11 June 2017 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5489834] [accessed 28 June 2019] FONT+COVER SE SIDE digital photograph taken 11 June 2017 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5500140] [accessed 28 June 2019]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 March 2014 by Bikeboy [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3905580] [accessed 28 June 2019]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 11 June 2017 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5500141] [accessed 28 June 2019]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the font and cover are partially visible between the second and third pillars of the north arcade, by the nortth entranceway

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 11 June 2017 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5491260] [accessed 28 June 2019]

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view of font and cover - southwest side

Scene Description: the much restored 14thC(?) font with its 17thC(?) cover[ the plinth is modern

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2017 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5500140] [accessed 28 June 2019]

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view of font and cover in context - southwest side

Scene Description: the much restored 14thC(?) font with its 17thC(?) cover[ the plinth is modern

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2017 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5489834] [accessed 28 June 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12352BRI

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Bartholomew

Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew

Church Location: Brightwell Baldwin, Oxford OX49 5NS, UK -- Tel.: 01491 838535

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off (SW) the B480, 1 km W of Cuxham, 3 km WNW of Watlington, 8 km NE of Wallingford, about 20 km SE of Oxford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Ewelme -- Hundred of Benson [in Domesday]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, by the N arcade, opposite the N entranceway

Century and Period: 14th century, Decorated

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are two entries for Brightwell [Baldwin] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SU6595/brightwell-baldwin/] [accessed 27 June 2019] neither of which mentions cleric or church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is plain, octagonal, probably D[ecorated]". In Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Octagonal. C14? C17 wooden cover." The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 18, 2016) notes: "Brightwell had a well-endowed parish church by the early 13th century, founded probably in the 11th or 12th century by one of the lords of Brightwell Parks manor, who owned the advowson [...] The earliest surviving stonework in the church dates from the early 13th century, [...] and its dedication to St Bartholomew was established by 1506. [...] Surviving 14th-century features include the octagonal font". The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU6532095000] notes: "Church. C13, rebuilt early C14; west tower remodelled and north chapel built in C15: restored 1895 [...] C14 octagonal font with C17 cover".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.65, -1.05612

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 39′ 0″ N, 1° 3′ 22.03″ W

UTM: 30U 634481 5723901

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood, oak?

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2019-06-27 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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