Fulbrook nr. Burford
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church exterior - west end
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view of church interior
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13025FUL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A361, just NE of Burford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
Church Notes: Norman south doorway, but porch Early English; chancel arch Transitional
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "font plain round". Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911: "the font, [...] Norman, is a plain cylindrical work on a low base". Not mentioned in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974). The font is one of the many plain Norman tubs on a wider base throughout England; it has several spots of damage, mostly at the upper rim. The wooden cover is flat and round, with metal decoration, and it appears to have the original (?) locking mechanism.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: medieval?
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
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