Upton nr. Didcot / Optone / Upton in Vale of White Horse
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view of font and cover
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of font and cover in context - northeast side
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view of font in context - north side
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view of church interior - north doorway
Scene Description: Source caption: "North Door. Normally these doorways are blocked up but it is nice to see the one at St Mary Upton is still there to use."
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: photograph taken from inside the chancel
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view of church interior - chancel arch
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![with the old basin in the foreground [west end], near the south doorway](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150327024_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with the old basin in the foreground [west end], near the south doorway
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2014 by Bill Nicholls [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3990241] [accessed 27 March 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13072UPT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century [basin only], Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Parish Church of St. Mary
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, to the left of the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Church Street, Upton, Oxfordshire, OX11 9JB
Site Location: Oxfordshire, South East, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located on the A417, WNW of Blewbury, 2-3 km S of Didcot [NB: not to be mistaken with another Upton in Oxon, nr Burford]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Oxfordshire
Historical Region: Hundred of Blewbury [in Domesday] -- formerly in Berkshire -- Hundred of Reading
Additional Comments: damaged font: repaired and bound with metal bands - paint: the font is heavily whitewashed / altered font (the base is a modern replacement)
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for this Upton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://domesdaymap.co.uk/place/SU5186/upton/] [accessed 27 March 2015], but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England: Oxfordshire (1850) notes: "A small N[orman] chapel of early character [...] The font is plain, round." The Victoria County History entry for Blewbury (Berkshire, vol. 3, 1923) includes Upton's Church St. Mary: "The church appears to be an original early 12th-century building, but in 1885 it underwent a drastic restoration [...] The bowl of the font is circular and is probably of 12th-century date, but the base is modern." Noted in the Parish website [www.churnchurches.co.uk/up_building.php] [accessed 1 August 2007]: "The current church building dates from the eleventh or twelfth centuries, and though a major restoration took place in 1885, the church has not changed much in almost a millennium [...] The font, by the south door, is probably as old as the church".
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 620498 5715537
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood, oak?
Apparatus: no
Notes: flat and round with metal ring handle
REFERENCES
- Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
- 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 12 in Berkshire]