Ipsden

INFORMATION

Font ID: 13034IPS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Norman
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary [orig. a chapel of North Stoke]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SE of Wallingford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Font Notes:
The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is a plain tub-shaped structure, made up with rough materials, plastered." Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "Font cylindrical, Norman, very plain." Noted in Kelly's Oxford Directory of 1911: "the font is plain and of rough material". There is no mention of the font in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974).

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

  • "Church notes, chiefly in Berks, Wilts, and Oxford, with a few in Somerset and Gloucestershire", 44, Archaeological Journal, 1887, pp. 43-50; 185-193; 291-303; 397-402; p. 297
  • Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911, p. 135 / [http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 2 July 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 171] / [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]