Chipping Norton / Nortune

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view of font and cover

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Church of St Mary, Chipping Norton. The church is one of the largest of the Cotswold churches financed by the proceeds of the medieval wool trade. It dates back to the 15th century and is listed Grade I. The church also has one of only three medieval hexagonal porches in the country."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Rogerson, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2010 by Richard Rogerson [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1955588] [accessed 19 March 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Richard Croft, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 March 2014 by Richard Croft [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3890828] [accessed 19 March 2019]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - plan

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Janice Cliffe, 2007
Image Source: digital image in Janice Cliffe [http://www.chippingnorton.net/Visitors/church/stmary.htm] [accessed 29 June 2007]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13000CHI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century / 19th century / [restored?], Decorated? / Victorian? / [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: church at 'Norton' documented 1081; re-built 15thC, wool church;
Church Address: 6 Church St, Chipping Norton OX7 5NT, UK
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off the A44-A361 crossroads, 30-35 km NW of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Shipton
Additional Comments: restored font? / altered font? / replaced font? -- disappeared font? (the on e from the 11thC church here)
Font Notes:
There is an entry for [Chipping] Norton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SP3127/chipping-norton/] [accessed 19 March 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Sherwood & Pevsner (1974) write: "Font. C14, octagonal, a blind arch on each face with Dec[orated] tracery." Noted in Janice Cliffe's 'Exploring our past: The Parish Church of Chipping Norton': [http://www.chippingnorton.net/Visitors/church/stmary.htm] [accessed 29 June 2007]: "The Font is of 14th century appearance, but may have had the top part replaced or restored in the 19th century restoration, as a visitation of 1520 mentions “ the chancel being in a ruinous state, the font broken and the graveyard violated by animals”. The baptismal font is indeed in the style of 14th-century designs, the sides of the basin decorated with window tracery panels, a graded underbowl chamfer, and an octagonal pedestal base with mouldings. The font looks 19th-century, but it is possible that the base could be earlier. The wooden font cover is of the Jacobean-type design, a flat octagonal platform on which are eight curved ribs around a central pivot. Is it also a Victorian rendering of the old design?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for the photographs of this church and font.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 599810 5755777
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.94374, -1.5479
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 56′ 37.46″ N, 1° 32′ 52.44″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]