Oxford No. 13 / Oxeneford

INFORMATION

FontID: 13002OXF
Church/Chapel: Merton College Chapel
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin & St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Merton St, Oxfordshire, Oxford, Oxford OX1 4JD, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on Merton St, off High St.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Headington
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 13th century, Medieval
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) [http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 30 June 2007]: "A new font has been erected in the north transept, -of Caen stone, elaborately wrought, standing on eight short pillars of Purbeck marble. A high cover with a crane of wrought iron, for lifting it off and on, is to be added." This font is noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974) as "by Butterfield, of 1851". This same source describes the other font at Merton College Chapel: "a gorgeous piece of Siberian green marble with an elliptical bowl. According to the inscription it was given by Tsar Alexander in 1816." [NB: the original Chapel dates from the late 13th century, the transept itself was built in the 14th century -- we have no information on the earlier font of this church]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.751018, -1.252669
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 45′ 3.67″ N, 1° 15′ 9.61″ W
UTM: 30U 620615 5734791

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: [cf. FontNotes]
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Gardner, Robert, History, gazetteer and directory of the County of Oxford, comprising [...], Peterborough: Printed and published by Robert Gardner, 1852
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974