Fulbrook nr. Burford
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior - south view
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view of church exterior - west end
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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view of church interior
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Image Source: digital photograph by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13025FUL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James
Church Notes: Norman south doorway, but porch Early English; chancel arch Transitional
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A361, just NE of Burford
Font Notes:
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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.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
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, p. 108 / [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 186] / [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]