Wardington / Upper Wardington / Wardengton

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Mary Magdalene Church, Wardington, Oxfordshire [...] has a 12th-century chancel and 13th-century nave."

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: view from the east side of the chancel screen

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13008WAR
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalene
Church Location: Wardington, Oxfordshire, OX17 1RS, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A361, 6 km NNE of Banbury
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Banbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Date: 1666
Century and Period: 17th century(mid), Restoration
Church Notes: 12thC chancel
No individual entry found for Wardington in the Domesday survey. Gardner's Gazetteer (1852) notes: "The font is of the octagonal cup form, and bears the date 1566." Ditto in Kelly's Directory of 1891. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 10, 1972) notes: "Wardington chapel was in existence by the 12th century at least. [...] It was dependent on the mother church of Cropredy until 1851, when it was created a perpetual curacy in the gift of the Bishop of Oxford [...] The earliest features of the building date from the 12th century. There is a partially blocked 12thcentury window in the south wall of the chancel, and the southern respond of the 12th-century chancel arch remains embedded in the wall behind the pulpit. At the east end of the north nave arcade are the responds of a 12th-century arch, indicating the existence of a transept or north chapel, whose site is now occupied by the east bay of the north aisle. The existing nave and aisles were built in the 13th century [...] The octagonal font bears the letters 'RM RS' and the date 1666 [...] The main fabric, including the chancel, was restored in 1887 and 1889", and reports a "Drawing in Bodl. MS. Top. Eccles. b 14" [Bodleian Library, Oxford]. Sherwood & Bond (1974) note: "Octagonal, dated 1666."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.112852, -1.28441
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 6′ 46.27″ N, 1° 17′ 3.88″ W
UTM: 30U 617475 5774978

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters and numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Text: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: Gardner (1852), Kelly (1891), VCH (1972)

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-04-19 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
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974