Launton
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jon S, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2005 by Jon S [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/61239] [accessed 13 December 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13035LAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Bicester Road, Launton, Oxfordshire OX6 0DQ
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located 3 km E of Bicester, about 20 km NE of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Kirtlington -- Hundred of Ploughley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Font Notes:
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No individual entry for Launton found in the Domesday survey. Kelly's Directory of 1911 reports: "the font is plain Early English" Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Font. Octagonal; C14?" The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 6, 1959) notes: "There is documentary evidence for a church at Launton in 1157, [...] but it is probable that it existed about a hundred years earlier and that its advowson was given to Westminster Abbey with the manor by Edward the Confessor. [...] A chapel is mentioned in 1157. [...] Aisles and a tower were added in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. [...] The plain octagonal font is medieval"; the VCH (ibid.) also notes a "Buckler drawing in MS. Top. Oxon. a 67, f. 364" at the Bodleian Library.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.897771, -1.122151
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 53′ 51.98″ N, 1° 7′ 19.75″ W
UTM: 30U 629203 5751334
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2009-03-15 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974