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INFORMATION

FontID: 12995OXF
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Ebbe
Church Patron Saints: St. Ebbe [aka Æbbe, Æbbe of Oxford, Ebbes] [cf. ChurchNotes]
Church Location: 2 Roger Bacon Ln. / Pennyfarthing Place, Oxford OX1 1QE
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located in Oxford city centre, across from the Westgate Shopping Centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Headington
Date: ca. 1005?
Century and Period: 11th century (early?), Pre-Conquest
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. Noted in Gardner's Gazetteer (1852): "the font was given by the late Dr. Griffith, master of University college." The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 4, 1979) notes that the parish church of St. Ebbe's was "recorded between 1005 and 1013" in the Eynsham Cartulary (I, p. viii), but by 1813 the much repaired church "was in a dangerous condition" and most of it, except for the lower part of the tower and southwest corner of the wall was demolished. "A new church was built on the same site, but extending further north to include the site of the rectory-house on the corner of St. Ebbe's Street and Church Street [...] completed in 1816", but underwent many expansions soon thereafter. The VCH (ibid) adds "The font is early 19th-century". [NB: we have no information on the earlier font here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.750556, -1.259722
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 45′ 2″ N, 1° 15′ 35″ W
UTM: 30U 620130 5734728

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2007-06-26 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Gardner, Robert, History, gazetteer and directory of the County of Oxford, comprising [...], Peterborough: Printed and published by Robert Gardner, 1852