Cuxham / Cuchesham

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the present font and cover; is it a medieval font drastically re-cut in modern times?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Nicholls, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 18 June 2017 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5526920] [accessed 28 June 2019]
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view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: Source caption; "The Norman doorway on the Holy Rood Cuxham"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Nicholls, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2017 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5518154] [accessed 28 June 2019]
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view of church exterior - northwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Motacilla, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2010 by Motacilla [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cuxham_HolyRood_exterior.JPG] [accessed 28 June 2019]
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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Nicholls, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 June 2017 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5525983] [accessed 28 June 2019]
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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the top of the basin and the finial of the cover are barely discernible at the far back, right [north] side, among the benches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Nicholls, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2017 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5526938] [accessed 28 June 2019]
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view of church interior - west doorway

Scene Description: Source caption: "The Norman doorway at the back of the Holy Rood Cuxham".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bill Nicholls, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2017 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5528211] [accessed 28 June 2019]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 13016CUX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century [re-cut?] / 19th century, Medieval [altered?]
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of the Holy Rood
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, NW corner of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Cross
Church Address: Cuxham Rd [B480], Cuxham, Watlington OX49 5NG, UK -- Tel.: 01491 838535
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the B480 [aka Cuxham Rd], 3-4 km NW of Watlington, 11 km NE of Wallingford, 20-25 km SE of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Ewelme -- Hundred of Benson [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the pre-Conquest church here [cf. FontNotes])
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Cuxham [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SU6695/cuxham/] [accessed 28 June 2019] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is plain, round, N[orman]." Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911 [http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 30 June 2007]: "a plain round font of the same date" as the Norman west doorway. There is no mention of any font in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974). The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 18, 2016) notes: "In the Anglo-Saxon period Cuxham may have been dependent on a mother church at Benson or (later) at Pyrton, [...] but there is no evidence of a link with either after the Conquest. A local church may have been built at Cuxham in the late Anglo-Saxon period, when it first became an independent estate: the present building (which dates apparently from the 12th century) stands next to the manor house, an arrangement typical of many small proprietary churches of the 10th century and later. By the 13 th century the church was fully independent, [...] and its small parish survived until 1853 when it was united for ecclesiastical purposes with neighbouring Easington [...] Cuxham church [...] is a middling-sized medieval structure substantially rebuilt in the late 17th century and much altered in the 19th. [...] The earliest features date apparently from the 12th century, and include the round-arched west doorway with sculpted capitals, the ground-floor window openings of the tower, and the plain tub font in the nave." The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing NGR: SU6667895206] notes: "Church. Early C12, early C14 and mid C18 alterations; chancel rebuilt 1895 [...] late C19 font".

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 635731 5724068
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.6512, -1.038
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 39′ 4.32″ N, 1° 2′ 16.8″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
  • Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911, p. 92
  • Parker, John Henry, The Ecclesiastical and architectural topography of England: Oxfordshire, Oxford, London: Published under the sanction of the Central Commitee of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland [by] John Henry Parker, 1850, [unpaged -- entry 10]