Oxford No. 11 / Oxeneford

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view of church exterior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2007 by BSI

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph in the Balliol College Archives [http://archives.balliol.ox.ac.uk/Archives/stcross01.asp] [accessed 19 June 2012]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph in the Balliol College Archives [http://archives.balliol.ox.ac.uk/Archives/stcross01.asp] [accessed 19 June 2012]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12994OXF

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Font Date: ca. 1100?

Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century, Norman

Church / Chapel Name: Chapel of St. Cross, Holywell [aka St. Cross Church] [now a Historical Collections Centre]

Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Cross

Church Address: St.Cross Rd, City Centre, Oxford OX1 3TP, UK -- Tel.: +44 1865 279111

Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located on St Cross Rd., just S of the Holywell Manor, near Manor Rd.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Headington

Additional Comments: disappeared font? the earlier font of this church? [access to the church is limited to service hours] -- a collection of images from the renovation/restoration of this church in the Balliol Archives are available at www.flickr.com/photos/balliolarchivist/sets/72157625210926916/ [accessed 19 June 2012] -- emailed 19June2012) Dr. John Jones, Balliol College, asking to see if he came across any info on old font at St Cross. His reply: "I am afraid I came on no physical or documentary trace of any Font of date earlier than the present Victorian one : and I looked quite hard in obvious printed and original sources . There were certainly Baptisms in the Church from the 17th cent at least :the Registers show that. Although technically then it was only chapel of Ease to St Peters, in practical reality it was a Parish Church having its own Registers" -John Jones"

Font Notes: Click to view

There are thirteen entries for Oxford [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5106/oxford/] [accessed 9 November 2016], two of which mention a church in each. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 4, 1979) notes: "The chapel existed c. 1100 when the surviving chancel arch was built [...] a chapel of St. Peter-in-the-East. In 1584 the inhabitants of Holywell were christened, churched, and buried in St. Cross, but paid their dues for those services to the vicar of St. Peter's. [...] The font is 19th-century". In his history of St, Cross Church, Jones (2011), mentions a new baptismal font newly introduced to the west end of the church in 1840, "but by 1882 a font was by the south door"; the latter may have been a still later font which Jones found reported as "designed by the late Mr Buckeridge" in the St Cross Parish Magazine (issue of March 1875). [NB: we have no information on the earlier font(s) here].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 620929 5735381

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.75625, -1.247917

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 45′ 22.5″ N, 1° 14′ 52.5″ W

REFERENCES

The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Oxford, London: VCH, [1990-1996?], [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22821] [accessed 26 June 2007]
Jones, John, St Cross Church, Holywell: Its history, architecture, people, and conversion into an Historic Collection Centre, [Balliol College], 2011. [URL discontinued / non active]. URL: [http://archives.balliol.ox.ac.uk/St%20X%20History%20Complete%2021%20Jan%202011.pdf] [accessed 19 June 2012].