Wroxton / Werochestan

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 April 2016 by Roger Templeman [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4916640] [accessed 7 November 2017]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "All Saints Church, Wroxton. Although there is documented evidence of Wroxton church from 1217, the present All Saints appears to be chiefly 14th and 15th century. There are, however, traces of a medieval wall painting above the chancel screen. The tower was designed by Sanderson Miller and begun in 1748".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 March 2010 by Richard Rogerson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1771681] [accessed 7 November 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2016 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5098891] [accessed 7 November 2017]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: 19th-century re-carving [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 July 2009 by John Ward

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 August 2016 by Basher Eyre [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5098755] [accessed 7 November 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12441WRO

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints

Church Patron Saints: All Saints

Church Location: Church Street, Wroxton, Oxfordshire, OX15 6QE, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located 5 km WNW of Banbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Bloxham

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 14th century [re-carved in 1845-1846], Decorated [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Ward, of Oxfordshire Churches [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches], for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There is an entry for Wroxton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4141/wroxton/] [accessed 7 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Lewis' Dictionary of 1848 reports: "at the west end of the nave is an ancient stone font ornamented with sculpture and figures of six of the Apostles." The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) mentions "a good font" in this Decorated church. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 9, 1969) notes: "Structurally there is no sign of anything earlier than the 14th century, when the whole fabric appears to have been refashioned or altogether rebuilt [...] In 1845–6 the font was entirely recarved."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.072104, -1.393026

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 4′ 19.57″ N, 1° 23′ 34.9″ W

UTM: 30U 610139 5770276

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?

Material: wood, pak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-04-25 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.

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

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