Chadlington / Cedelintone / West Chadlington

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B01: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle - in a square - 8

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the lower base

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 12989CHA

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A361, 6 km SSE of Chipping Norton

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 15th century / 19th century, Perpendicular? / Victorian?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and font.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with vertical sides decorated with quatrefoil-in-a-circle panels, raised on a plain octagonal pedestal base and a moulded lower base, also octagonal. Wooden cover, octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and handle. The whole is raised on a round plinth with kneeling stone. The font is either 15th-century, or a 19th-century imitation of the typical Perpendicular design. [NB: the church of St. Nicholas in Chadlington was originally Norman, but we have no information on the original font of this church -- Lewis' Dictionary of 1831 has a separate entry for East Chadlington that mentions a "chapel dedicated to St. Mary. Lewis' edition of 1848 expands the entry to read: "The chapel, dedicated to St. Mary, is a beautiful structure in the early English style", but there is no mention of a font in either entry].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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