Buscot / Boroardescote / Borewardescote / Burewardescote / Burewardsci / Burghwardescote / Burw Ascot

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design element - architectural - column - 4

Scene Description: at the angles of the lower section of the base

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the sections below the basin [cf. Font notes]

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view of basin

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of font

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view of font - detail

Scene Description: the middle section

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view of font - detail

Scene Description: the lower section

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12988BUS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Buscot, Oxfordshire, SN7 8DQ
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off the A417, 2 km SE of Lechlade, WNW of Faringdon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: formerly in Berkshire -- Hundred of Shrivenham
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [part of the base only], Medieval / composite
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and font.
There is an entry for Buscot [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SU2297/buscot/] [accessed 8 June 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Victoria County History (Berkshire, vol. 4, 2011] notes: "With the exception of the tower and porch the plan would appear to represent substantially a building of c. 1200, the east wall of the nave, including the chancel arch, being of that date, and perhaps part of the chancel. [...] The font consists of a plain circular bowl moulded on the lower and upper edges, standing on a modern shaft and square 13th-century base moulded at the angles." The baptismal font is described and illustrated in the CRSBI (2008): "A cup-shaped, oolitic limestone bowl on a square base, like an inverted capital, which looks post-medieval. This in turn stands on a square pier with angle rolls with broad fillets on a chamfered plinth. This section dates from c.1200. The bowl has a fat roll at the upper rim and a smaller one at the bottom and the carving is irregular. There is no inner lining [...] The bowl itself must surely be earlier."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.682018, -1.673358
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 40′ 55.27″ N, 1° 40′ 24.09″ W
UTM: 30U 591717 5726505

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 8 cm [calculated]
Diameter (inside rim): 46 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 62 cm*
Height of Basin Side: 27.5 cm*
Height of Base: 67 cm [calculated from the CRSBI's 34.5 + 32.5 cm* measurements of the two sections]
Font Height (less Plinth): 94.5 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * CRSBI (2015)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; appears modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-11-23 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2007-06-23 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.