Hampton Poyle / Hantone
Image copyright © John Ward, 2009
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steve Daniels, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 January 2012 by Steve Daniels [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2793877] [accessed 12 December 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Ward, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 March 2009 by John Ward [http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordshirechurches/3360575761/] [accessed 1 May 2009]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
FontID: 13028HAM
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Church Lane, Hampton Gay and Poyle, Oxfordshire OX5 2QF
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 2.5 km from Kidlington, 10 km N of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Kirtlington [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Ploughley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1225?
Century and Period: 13th century [basin only] -- 19th century [base only], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Ward, of Oxfordshire Churches [http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches], for his photograph of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
There is an entry for Hampton [Gay and Poyle] [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/XX0000/hampton-gay-and-poyle/] [accessed 12 December 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it]. There is no font mentioned in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911 in this Early English church, but the "register of baptisms dates from the year 1540", which denotes the presence of a font in the church by that date. The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol 6, 1959) notes: "No record of the church at Hampton Poyle has been found before about 1225, when the rector Simon witnessed a charter for the lord of the manor, William de Hampton. [...] From the first recorded presentation in 1247 or 1248 until the 17th century the descent of the advowson usually followed that of the manor. Much of the church dates from the 13th century [...] The church was considerably altered in the 14th century [...] An extensive restoration began in 1844 [...] About 1870 there was a more general restoration (architect G.E. Street) [...] The font is low and circular, with an octagonal base." Not mentioned in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.835888,
-1.277197
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 50′ 9.2″ N,
1° 16′ 37.91″ W
UTM: 30U 618699 5744189
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead-lined
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, with slightly raised pyramydal centre ending in tiny knob handle
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-02-03 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911