Barford St. John
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view of church exterior - west tower
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13015BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John
Church Patron Saints: St. John
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located near Barford St. Michael, 3 km NW of Deddington, 8 km SW of Banbury
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century [basin only -- 15th century [base only] -- [composite font], Medieval / composite
Font Notes:
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Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911: "Early Norman font". Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Norman, tub-shaped, on a Perp[endicular] base, with quatrefoil decoration."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974