Godington / Godendone / Godintune

INFORMATION

FontID: 13027GOD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of the Holy Trinity
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: Main Street, Godington, Oxfordshire OX6 9AF
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Godington is a hamlet, located at the end of a small road (?) / path (?) that turns off (E) of the A421 about 8 km NE of Bicester (the second lane off to the left leads to Godington)
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Kirtlington [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Ploughley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, built into the S wall
Century and Period: 12th century, Late Norman
Church Notes: original church probably mid-12thC; re-built late-18thC
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Godington [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP6427/godington/] [accessed 7 December 2016] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911 [www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 1July 2007] reports: "the font, of Norman date, is built into the south wall". The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 6, 1959) notes: "It is likely that there was a church at Godington at least by about 1160 [...] The church of Holy Trinity is a small Georgian building [...] The only relic of the medieval church is the circular font." Not mentioned in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.945003, -1.067399
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 56′ 42.01″ N, 1° 4′ 2.63″ W
UTM: 30U 632831 5756686

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-01-29 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911