Fifield nr. Burford

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Results: 5 records

B01: design element - architectural - arch - trefoiled - 16

Scene Description: two per side of the octagonal basin
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BU01: design element - architectural - arch - trefoiled - 8

Scene Description: on the tall underbowl chamfer
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

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view of font and cover

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 13020FIF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A424, 7-8 km NW of Burford
Font Notes:
The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font [is] P[erpendicular]". Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911: "the font is a Perpendicular work". In Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Perp[endicular], octagonal, with two blind trefoil arches on each face."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, pf www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and ring handle

REFERENCES

  • Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911, p. 104 / [http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 1July 2007]
  • 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 74] / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=maikb1i3wSUC&pg=PT144&lpg=PT144&dq=longcot+church+font&source=web&ots=p3k5tJJE6J&sig=KYjkm8H5wOoAuH7BvnLp7JqMPus&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA17,M1] [accessed 31 December 2008]