South Leigh No. 2
Results: 8 records
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)
design element - motifs - moulding
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 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)
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)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 13037LEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. James the Great
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Address: Church End, South Leigh, Oxfordshire, OX29 6US, UK
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
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 Notes:
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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]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Kate Potter, churchwarden at South Leigh St. James', for the photographs of this church and font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 608297 5737605
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.778825, -1.430161
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 46′ 43.77″ N, 1° 25′ 48.58″ W
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, p. 144 / [http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 3 July 2007]