Ascott under Wychwood
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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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BU01: design element - motifs - tracery
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 12986ASC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the B4437, 10 km NNE of Burford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and font.
Font Notes:
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The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) reports a Perpendicular font in this church, even though parts of the fabric go back to Norman times. In Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Perp[endicular]. Octagonal and carved with quatrefoils." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin the sides of which are decorated with encircled quatrefoils, a slightly convexed chamfered underbowl with tracery motifs, and a short octagonal stem; the lower base has an octagonal upper volume on a square one; octagonal plinth with priest's projection. The round wooden cover is flat, with metal decorations and ring handle.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood, oak?
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