Ascott under Wychwood
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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - 8
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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BU01: design element - motifs - tracery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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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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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 12986ASC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the B4437, 10 km NNE of Burford
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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and font.
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, [unpaged -- entry 64] / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=maikb1i3wSUC&pg=PT144&lpg=PT144&dq=longcot+church+font&source=web&ots=p3k5tJJE6J&sig=KYjkm8H5wOoAuH7BvnLp7JqMPus&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA17,M1] [accessed 31 December 2008]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 423