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BBL01: design element - motifs - moulding
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BU01: design element - motifs - moulding - graded
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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
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R01: design element - motifs - moulding
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UB01: design element - motifs - floral - rosette
Scene Description: some sides, above the centre ring, have pairs of rosettes; other sides are plain
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior - west tower
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Image Source: digital photograph taken by John Wilkes [www.allthecotswolds.com]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13039MIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Perpendicular
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Lawrence
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 2.5 km SW of Bloxham, 8 km SW of Banbury
Additional Comments: disappeared font? the original 13th-century font?
Font Notes:
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The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "The font is P[erpendicular]". Noted in Kelly's Directory of 1911: "the font is Perpendicular" [NB: Kelly's (ibid.) notes also that the original church dates from the 13th century, but we have no information on the original font of this church]. Noted in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974): "C15. A small bowl on an octagonal pedestal."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal and flat, with metal decoration and handle
REFERENCES
- Kelly, Kelly's Directory of Oxfordshire, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1911, p. 149 / [http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/d.asp] [accessed 3 July 2007]
- 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, [unpaged -- entry 133] / [http://books.google.ca/books?id=maikb1i3wSUC&pg=PT144&lpg=PT144&dq=longcot+church+font&source=web&ots=p3k5tJJE6J&sig=KYjkm8H5wOoAuH7BvnLp7JqMPus&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA17,M1] [accessed 31 December 2008]
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, Oxfordshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974, p. 704