Heythrop / Edrope

INFORMATION

FontID: 13017HEY
Church/Chapel: Old Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Heythrop, Oxfordshire, OX7 5TN, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A361, 4 km E of Chipping Norton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Wootton
Font Location in Church: Inside the old church
Century and Period: 17th century[re-cycled capital], Baroque [altered?]
Church Notes: original church ca.1170, of which only the chancel remains; it is used as a mortuary chapel and opens once a year; new church of 1870s is the operating parish church
There is entry for Heythrop [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP3527/heythrop/] [accessed 16 November 2017], but it mentions neither priest nor church in it. Sherwood & Pevsner (1974) write: "Font. The bowl is a reused medieval capital". The Victoria County History (Oxon., vol. 11, 1983) notes: "The old church at Heythrop dates from the 12th century [...] The new church [...] was designed by A. W. Blomfield and built in 1879-80 at the expense of Albert Brassey." There is no mention of a font in either entry in the VCH. The British Listed Buildings entry for this church [Listing NGR: SP3522327713] notes: "Small stone font on a panelled stem may be C17."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 603706 5756553

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974