Wilcote / Widelicote / Wilcott / Wivelicota

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view of church exterior - northeast view

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Blocked south doorway of St Peter's parish church, Wilcote, Oxfordshire, viewed from the outside."

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view of church exterior - southeast view

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view of church exterior - west view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13010WIL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church olf St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Wilcote Grange, Oxfordshire, OX7 3EA, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A40, 6 km NE of Witney
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Wootton
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
There is an entry for Wilcote [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP3715/wilcote/] [accessed 29 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Gardner's Gazetteer (1852) [www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 30 June 2007] reports: "a neat marble font", which probably means Georgian or later [NB: Gardner (ibid.) reports that the south doorway appears "Saxon or early Norman", but we have no information on the earlier font of this church]. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 12, 1990) notes: "The church of 'Wivelicota', granted to Oseney abbey in 1151 by Ralph Basset, son of the justiciar, may have been Wilcote, although Ralph is not otherwise recorded as having any connexion with the place. That church was subsequently lost by the abbey. [...] The earliest incontrovertible evidence of a church at Wilcote lies in the fabric, part of which is of the later 12th century [...] The nave and chancel are of the later 12th century", and refers to the the former source and font, but adds that, in the renovations of 1868, "a carved stone font" was added. [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church, or on the whereabouts of the font reported in Gardner]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.837, -1.46
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 50′ 13.2″ N, 1° 27′ 36″ W
UTM: 30U 606102 5744030

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-04-25 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