Rousham / Rouesham / Rowesham

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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Scene Description: the modern font of 1753

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Scene Description: the modern font of 1753

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13009ROU

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Leonard and St. James

Church Patron Saints: St. Leonard & St. James [originally St. Germanus; later St. Mary; later still St. James and finally St. Leonard & St. James]

Church Location: Rousham, Oxfordshire, OX25 4QX, UK

Country Name: England

Location: Oxfordshire, South East

Directions to Site: Located just off (SE) the crossroads of the A4260-B4030, 8 km NNE of Woodstock, 18 km from Oxford and Banbury

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Wootton

Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman

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There are two entries for Rousham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP4724/rousham/] [accessed 15 November 2017], neither of which mentions priest or church in it. Gardner's Gazetteer (1852) notes: "The font of white marble is of elegant design", which probably means Georgian or later. Noted in Sherwood and Pevsner (1974): "Font. Early C18. Marble, with a baluster stem and a cup-shaped bowl carved with palm fronds." [NB: Gardner (ibid.) reports that the building "exhibits vestiges of the Norman style of architecture", but we have no information of the earlier font of this church]. The Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 11, 1983) notes: "The earliest church presumably comprised a nave and chancel. In the late 12th century the first bay of a south arcade was begun at the eastern end of the nave, and in the early 13th century the west tower was built [...] The reading desk and pulpit were replaced in 1744, and the font in 1753 [...] The church was restored in 1867 and 1868. The chancel was entirely rebuilt and refitted and heightened, the south aisle was extensively repaired and the south porch rebuilt, and the nave and aisles were reroofed. In the course of the work the chancel arch was rebuilt using some late 12th-century material

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.913732, -1.304007

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 54′ 49.43″ N, 1° 18′ 14.42″ W

UTM: 30U 616650 5752802

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2017-11-15 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