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 church exterior - southwest view
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13020FIF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A424, 7-8 km NW of Burford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, pf www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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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."
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
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