Churchill nr. Chipping Norton

Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2007
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view of church exterior - west tower
INFORMATION
FontID: 13001CHU
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of All Saints
Church Patron Saints: All Saints
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on B4450, 3-4 km SW of Chipping Norton
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
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 decorated with deeply-carved panels decorated with a floral motif nscribed in a tetrafoil, floral motifs between the mouldings of the uppr rim, graded underbowl chamfer, raised on an octagonal pedestal base, itself ornamented with Ogee archaes/windows, and a moulded lower base. Wooden font cover, flat and round, decorated with metal; probably contemporary with the Victorian font. [NB: Sherwood & Pevsner (1974) note that the new church was "rebuilt in 1826 on a new site", and, that, of the old church, "the chancel has been preserved as a mortuary chapel"; the old church has Early English and Decorated details, but we have no information of the medieval font of that church]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974