South Leigh No. 2

Image copyright © Cogges Parish Council, 2009

Permission received from Kate Potter, Churchwarden (e-mail of 23 March 2009)

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design element - motifs - moulding

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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph [http://www.coggesparish.com/southleigh/inscrip/insidec_.htm] [accessed 16 March 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received from Kate Potter, Churchwarden (e-mail of 23 March 2009)

design element - motifs - panel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cogges Parish Council, 2009

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph [http://www.coggesparish.com/southleigh/inscrip/insidec_.htm] [accessed 16 March 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received from Kate Potter, Churchwarden (e-mail of 23 March 2009)

view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cogges Parish Council, 2009

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph [http://www.coggesparish.com/southleigh/inscrip/insidec_.htm] [accessed 16 March 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received from Kate Potter, Churchwarden (e-mail of 23 March 2009)

view of font and cover

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cogges Parish Council, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph [http://www.coggesparish.com/southleigh/inscrip/insidec_.htm] [accessed 16 March 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received from Kate Potter, Churchwarden (e-mail of 23 March 2009)

view of font and cover in context

view of font and cover in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cogges Parish Council, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph [http://www.coggesparish.com/southleigh/inscrip/insided_.htm] [accessed 16 March 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received from Kate Potter, Churchwarden (e-mail of 23 March 2009)

view of font cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cogges Parish Council, 2009

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph [http://www.coggesparish.com/southleigh/inscrip/insidec_.htm] [accessed 16 March 2009]

Copyright Instructions: Permission received from Kate Potter, Churchwarden (e-mail of 23 March 2009)

INFORMATION

FontID: 13037LEI
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Location: Church End, South Leigh, Oxfordshire, OX29 6US, UK
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A40, 4 km ESE of Witney, 13 km WNW of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Wootton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Century and Period: 15th century, Perpendicular
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Kate Potter, churchwarden at South Leigh St. James', for the photographs of this church and font
Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1911: "the font is Perpendicular". Described and illustrated in the Parish web site [http://www.coggesparish.com/southleigh/inscrip/history.htm]: "The font itself is 15th century; in the 19th century it was coverless; the cover was designed by Sebastian Comper in 1948." The font consists of an octagonal basin with slightly tapering plain sides, just a thin moulding near the bottom; plain chamfered underbowl; octagonal stem with two-up-two-down rectangular panels on the sides; moulded octagonal lower base. Octagonal wooden cover, rounded and tapering to a ball finial. [NB: Kelly's (ibid.) notes that the earlier parts of the building date to the Norman and Transitional periods, but we have no information on the original font of this church]. [cf. Index entry for South Leigh No. 1 for the remains of a holy water-stoup in the porch]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.778825, -1.430161
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 46′ 43.77″ N, 1° 25′ 48.58″ W
UTM: 30U 608297 5737605

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1948
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911