Ipsden

INFORMATION

FontID: 13034IPS
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary [orig. a chapel of North Stoke]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 6 km SE of Wallingford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
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; r["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