Binsey / Thornbury

Results: 17 records

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: repaired [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 7, 2007

view of basin - interior

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view of basin - upper view

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view of church exterior

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view of church exterior - south portal

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of church interior - looking west

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view of church interior - nave - ceiling

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 7, 2007

view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 7, 2007

view of font - upper view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 7, 2007

view of font cover

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view of font in context

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view of well

Scene Description: St. Margaret's well

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 7, 2007

view of wellhead

Scene Description: St. Margaret's well

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view of wellhead - detail

Scene Description: St. Margaret's well; the stone is dated 1874

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 7, 2007

INFORMATION

FontID: 13006BIN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Margaret of Antioch

Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located 2.5 km NW of Oxford, off Botley Rd, across Port Meadow

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 14th - 16th century, Medieval

Church Notes: Gardner's Gazetteer (1852) reports that the original church "is said to have been founded by St. Frideswide, and first built of 'watlyn and rough hewn timber' about the year 730" -- to the NW end of the church is an old well with a spring, called St. Margaret's Well, the waters of which were said to have miraculous healing powers (ibid., with ref. to Peshall's Oxford, p. 322))

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted in Gardner's Gazetteer (1852) [www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 30 June 2007]: "The font is curious and very ancient". Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911 [http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 30 June 2007]: "the font is a cylindrical basin, supported on round moulded shafts and plain blocks of stone, resting on a square base". In Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Tub-shaped, on a modern base. C12?" On-site notes: the "square base" mentioned in Kelly (1911) is no longer in place, the font being now [July 2007] raised on a round plinth; there are iron staples but they are probably not the originals (there are repairs where the original ones probably were -- the present staples are squarish and appear of later date); the basin is wider at the top than at the bottom, therefore more bucket-shaped than cylindrical; the base is formed by triple colonnettes clustered together; the wooden cover with metal ring handle appears modern; the font appears to be made of limestone.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: lead lining

Rim Thickness: 8.5 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 60 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 76 cm

Basin Depth: 32 cm

Height of Basin Side: 44 cm

Basin Total Height: 44 cm

Height of Base: 54 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 98 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 114 cm [plinth=16 cm]

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

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