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view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy

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Image Source: photograph in Flicker, with original from Oxfordshire Church Illustrations [http://flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos/321154110/] [accessed 30 July 2007]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13067OXF
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Barnabas
Church Patron Saints: St. Barnabas [aka Barnabus, Bernabé]
Church Location: Cardigan Street, Jericho, Oxford
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on Cardigan St., in the Jericho area of Oxford
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxford
Historical Region: Hundred of Headinmgton
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end of the centre aisle, opposite the entrance
Date: ca. 1870?
Century and Period: 19th century (late?), Victorian
The Victoria County History (Oxford, vol. 4, 1979) notes that the Church of St. Barnabas was built after 1869. The font there is noted and illustrated in Flicker, with original from Oxfordshire Church Illustrations [http://flickr.com/photos/oxfordshire_church_photos] [accessed 1 August 2007]. A square table-top basin raised on five supports; probably ca. 1870; definitely a Victorian-period version of a Norman original design. Tall canopy over a flat round cover.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th-century
Material: wood,
Notes: a canopy on four corner posts; brightly painted

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-06-20 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.