Merton nr. Bicester / Meretone

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view of font - west side

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view of font and cover - west side

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view of font and cover - east side

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design element - motifs - moulding

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view of church exterior - south view

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 13038MER

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late?), Late Norman? / Transitional?

Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Swithin [aka St. Swithun's]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Swithun [aka Swithin]

Church Address: 2 Church Close, Merton, Oxfordshire, OX25 2NF

Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom

Directions to Site: Located between Amborsden and Charlton-on-Otmoor, 6 km SSW of Blackthorn, 6 km S of Bicester, 16 km NE of Oxford

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford

Historical Region: Hundred of Headington [in Domesday] -- Hundred of Byllingdon

Font Notes: Click to view

There is an entry for this Merton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/SP5717/merton/] [accessed 29 November 2016], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Kelly's Directory of 1911 notes: "the font is plain and round". The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 5, 1957) notes: "Some time between 1118 and 1136, the advowson of Merton church, with its lands and tithes, was granted to Eynsham Abbey by the antecessor of Guy de Cahaines. [...] The church of St.. Swithin is a stone building almost entirely of the 14th century [...] The stone font is medieval, and has a 17thcentury wooden cover which, according to Dunkin, formerly bore the date 1639 and the initials 'hk.'" In Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "Tub-shaped, with a moulded band. Late C12. The cover is Jacobean."

COORDINATES

UTM: 30U 626508 5746616

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.855991, -1.163039

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 51′ 21.57″ N, 1° 9′ 46.94″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: ca. 1639? / 17th century (?) / Jacobean?

Material: wood, oak?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911, p. 148
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 700