Combe nr. Woodstock / Long Combe / Combe Longa / Cumbe

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design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: alternating with with figures -- perhaps a cleric? -- this is the disputed object: base of a cross? / well-head? / font?

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by John Ward, Oxfordshire Churches

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human figure - kneeling?

Scene Description: perhaps a cleric? -- this is the disputed object: base of a cross? / well-head? / font?

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph by John Ward, Oxfordshire Churches

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2011 by Motacilla [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Combe_StLaurence_SE.JPG] [accessed 28 November 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2008 by Philip Halling [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1048595] [accessed 28 November 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - south wall - painting - detail

Scene Description: at the back, the wall paintings above the south entranceway; the top of the font and cover visible in the foreground

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2004 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1625083] [accessed 28 November 2017]

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view of church interior - wellhead

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2004 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1625089] [accessed 28 November 2017]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the later (?) font

Image Source: digital photograph by John Ward, Oxfordshire Churches

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: John Salmon's

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2004 by John Salmon [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1624525] [accessed 28 November 2017]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12982COM

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Laurence the Martyr

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Location: Church Walk, Combe Longa, Oxfordshire, OX29 8NG, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off the A4095, just W of Blenheim Palace, 5 km W of Woodstock, 16 km NW of Oxford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Wootton

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 15th century, Late Medieval

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 this Combe [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4115/combe/] [accessed 28 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911 notes a baptismal font that is similar in design to the "hexagonal panelled stone pulpit, with rich tracery, crocketed pinnacles and a battlemented cornice". Sherwood & Pevsner (1974) write: "The present font is C19. The original Perp[endicular] font remains on the floor of the nave. It has panelled sides and figures carved in relief, now much weathered and mutilated." [NB: this entry is footnoted: "The Vicar, Mr G. Thompson, however, says that there is no evidence that this was the font and that it may have formed the base of a cross"]. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 12, 1990) notes: "There was a church at Combe by c. 1141, when the Empress Maud granted it to Eynsham abbey [...] White Kennett's assertion that the church was built in 1395 (fn. 30) has led to a misconception that it is all of one build [...] The octagonal bowl of what appears to be a 15th-century font lies in the south-east corner of the nave. That it was a font is disputed, (fn. 52: Emden, Combe Ch. and Village, 11; Long, St. Laur. Ch. 11; local inf.) and it may have been the base of a churchyard cross such as those at Eynsham and Yarnton before being hollowed out to serve as a well-head. (fn. 53: B. J. Marples, 'Medieval Oxon. Crosses', Oxoniensia, xxxviii. 304–6.) It is roughly carved inside, and was used as a wellhead in the late 19th century, but it appears to have served as a font in 1846. (fn. 54: O.A.H.S. Proc. N.S. vi. 76, 89; Parker, Guide, 154.) It was returned to the church in 1912. (fn. 55: Combe Par. Mag. Nov. 1912.)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.84, -1.401

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 50′ 24″ N, 1° 24′ 3.6″ W

UTM: 30U 610160 5744452

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Gloucestershire. vol. X, 1972

Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911

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